BBC Asian Network

Mobeen Azhar
Monday 13 to Thursday 16 May, 10pm-midnight

Mobeen Azhar will be tackling a range of topics around mental health. He’ll be opening up a discussion around a different subject each day, exploring the issues that matter to listeners.

BBC Radio 1

Newsbeat: Radio 1 Stories - My Mind And Me

From the team who created award-winning podcast, I Hear Voices, comes a new mental health series for Radio 1 Stories, available on BBC Sounds.

As part of a special mental health season on BBC Radio 1, My Mind And Me, Newsbeat returns to catch up with four young people one year on since they revealed the dramatic highs and lows of living with mental health conditions. Each podcast is dedicated to one person's journey, covering a range of conditions including anxiety, depression, anorexia, OCD and bipolar.

Listen to Radio 1 Stories podcasts on BBC Sounds from Monday 13 May.

Life Hacks
Sunday 12 May, 4-7pm

Cel Spellman and Riyadh Khalaf present Life Hacks with a mental health focus, with honest and fun chat around all the questions listeners are too scared to search for. As young people call for schools and colleges to teach them more about how to look after their mental health, Cel and Riyadh rise to the challenge as Life Hacks presents a special wellness lesson, with strategies and advice for listeners on how to maintain their own mental health and wellbeing.

Life Hacks: Mental Health Special
Sunday 19 May, 4-7pm

Cel Spellman and Katie Thistleton host a Life Hacks mental health special. They’ll be joining forces with activist Gina Martin, taking on a wellness challenge with BBC Body Positive around Mental Health Awareness Week. Cel, Katie and Gina will be reporting back on their experiences of the daily tasks they undertake as part of the challenge, designed to help maintain a healthy lifestyle and support their mental wellbeing.

Radio 1’s Life Hacks Podcast
BBC Sounds, from April 2019

Life Hacks will also be running a series of special podcasts focused around mental health. The team will be exploring a range of topics, from exploring the impact a miscarriage can have on the mental health of male partners, to unpicking the complex issue of mental health in children.

BBC Radio 1Xtra

1Xtra Talks
Sunday 12 May, 9-10pm

Reece Parkinson will present an in-depth 1Xtra Talks mental health special.

BBC Radio 2

Jeremy Vine
Thursday 16 May, midday-2pm

Jeremy Vine broadcasts a special programme to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week. Anxiety and anxiety attacks affect thousands of people in this country - but just how does a partner cope? Jeremy is joined by Radio 2’s relationship expert, Barbara Want.

Jeremy Vine is produced by Phil Jones for the BBC

Good Morning Sunday
Sunday 19 May, 6-9am

Good Morning Sunday's Charity Champion will be Debbie Matthews from #GoRacingGreen. Debbie has coped with mental health issues for many years but came to fame in the racing world earlier this year when she braved the crowds at Ascot to see Altior, a horse who has provided a kind of therapy for her. She is now encouraging racecourses to think about how they can better cater for the needs of people with mental health issues.

Pause For Thought

Radio 2’s Pause For Thought in Vanessa Feltz’s show will focus on mental health throughout Mental Health Awareness Week. Contributors will include Good Morning Sunday presenter Reverend Kate Bottley and the current President of the Methodist Conference, Reverend Michaela Youngson.

Pause For Thought is produced by Oliver Seymour for TBI Media

BBC Radio 4

The Archers

On BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, Elizabeth Pargetter continues her journey with depression. Elizabeth finds common ground with fellow Ambridge resident Will Grundy and the pair bond over their experiences of loss and grief. The Archers continues daily on Radio 4, Sunday to Friday (excluding Saturday) at 7pm.

Woman’s Hour

BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour will feature a series of interviews throughout the week with women about their experience of serious mental health issues, examining the woman’s experience of the condition and how it has affected their lives.

BBC Radio 6 Music

On BBC Radio 6 Music, programmes will explore the issue confidence and how music and performance can help build it, including Now Playing where the audience will create a playlist of songs that make them feel confident.

BBC local radio

BBC local radio stations are delving deep into their communities with plans that include a wellbeing walk in Derby and a young people get-together in Berkshire.

They are focusing on events that get as many people as possible together in a bid to combat loneliness and promote good mental health. There will also be a special mental health edition of the podcast Multi Story, which handpicks personal tales from across England.

BBC Radio Wiltshire is broadcasting a debate chaired by its political reporter with a panel of experts, a local MP, service providers, users, a GP and a mental health charity. Their calendar of wellbeing tips, with one positive idea to help mental health each day for 31 days, can be downloaded here.

Meanwhile, BBC Radio Humberside is on the hunt for 100 people to walk 100 miles with their Breakfast presenter. Twenty people will join the walk each day over the five day period, providing 20 different voices on the issue.

The weekly three-hour LGBTQ+ show on BBC Radio Leeds focusses on mental health in the black and Asian communities and hearing personal stories. Part of the show will be a debate recorded at a location yet to be confirmed.

Meet ups for men’s mental health is a focus for BBC Radio Manchester and BBC Tees while BBC Radio Lincolnshire is organising a health MOT Centre focussing on young farmers, allowing those who may be isolated in the large, rural county to get support and advice.

In Preston, BBC Radio Lancashire will host a talk by a health expert, followed by a meditation session for around 50 people from all ages and backgrounds.

Recently, BBC Radio Cornwall’s monthly mental health programme - now in its eighth year - was nominated for a national health award. The station is helping Torpoint Library as it reopens as a community hub with a focus on mental health support.

The Get Creative Festival, the UK-wide celebration of have-a-go creativity, is back from 11-19 May 2019, aiming to give everyone in the UK the chance to Get Creative.

New for 2019, BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinker and University College London Senior Research Fellow, Dr Daisy Fancourt - in partnership with UCL and The Open University - will reveal for the first time why getting creative is good for us using results from the biggest study of its kind. The Get Creative Feel Good Test will give participants a ‘feel good formula’ to re-boot their creative habits - maximising the potential for each individual to improve wellbeing. The Open University has developed a new website with the BBC to run the study and give personal recommendations. This unique test will launch in early May ahead of the Get Creative Festival and will be found at bbc.co.uk/getcreative