How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

S3 Brian May: ‘My name’s Brian and I’m a depressive’

May 10, 2022

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Best Week of My Life

2min

The Importance of Compliments

2min

The Importance of Seeing People Who Mean the Most to You

2min

The Worst Year of My Life

2min

How Do You Cope With Ellison John?

3min

The Importance of Being Transparent When You Have a Heart Attack

5min

The Uniqueness of Queen Fans

5min

The Journey Between Back to the Light and Another World

3min

10.

The Importance of Depression

2min

11.

The Importance of the Milieu in Therapy

6min

12.

The Language of Letting Go

3min

13.

The Language of Letting Go

3min

14.

How to Deal With a Public Loss

2min

15.

The Future Looked Like to Me

5min

16.

Freddie's Legacy: A Stiff Upper Lip

2min

17.

Made in Heaven: A Strange Experience

3min

18.

How to Promote Your Album to the Press

2min

19.

The Difficulty of Being a Lead Singer and Guitarist

5min

20.

Another World Reflects the New World That You Found Yourself in After Made in Heaven

2min

21.

The Two Sides of Me

5min

22.

How to Navigate Life Through Darkness and Light

3min

23.

How to Deal With Alicia Keys

2min

This week Elis and John are joined by Queen guitarist Brian May. They talk to him about living with depression, the grief that came from losing his father and bandmate in the same year and his experiences with therapy.

Details of organisations that can provide help and support on some of the issues raised in this episode or the rest of the series are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.