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Michael Mosley: Just One Thing review – a wonderful tribute to the man who made us change for the better

Mosley was working on this TV version of his hit podcast packed with easy ways to boost your health when he died – and the results could not be more moving

When Dr Michael Mosley died in June, while on holiday in Greece, he was working on Just One Thing, a television version of his hugely popular BBC podcast/radio series of the same name, which had been running since 2021. He filmed enough for just two episodes, and this look at the benefits of cold showers is the first. Each instalment of the podcast was a short slice of simplicity. In less than 15 minutes, usually, Mosley would examine the idea that one easy shift in habits could improve your health. From doing yoga to eating nuts, from dancing to scoffing (a small amount of) dark chocolate and drinking coffee, his warm approach to discussing body and mind made change seem easy, understandable and, crucially, possible.

Here, he sticks to the Just One Thing format, but it’s longer and has visuals, so we get to see the effects of his single, simple change – what he refers to as a Just One Thing Challenge – on the volunteers who have signed up to try it out. First, he takes a classic early podcast episode about cold showers and uses single mother Jayne, from north Wales, as his guinea pig. Jayne explains that she is “permanently knackered” and that she is recovering from a year of colds and infections that saw her end up in hospital. The scare was, she explains, the “kick up the bum” she needed to pay more attention to her health.

Michael Mosley: Just One Thing aired on BBC One and is on iPlayer now.

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