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Tuesday-friday, BBC2 HD, 8pm
Football players open up to PRINCE WILLIAM about their mental-health issues
PRINCE WILLIAM HAS long been passionate about dispelling the stigma surrounding mental health and getting people, especially men, to open up.
In this powerful BBC1 documentary, cameras follow
The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades offers help and advice to viewers who would like to improve their DIY skills during lockdown. He uses archive clips to help demonstrate that, with the right tools and a can-do attitude, DIY can be a pleasure rather than a chore. the prince for 12 months as he examines men’s mental health through the prism of football, meeting fans, players and managers to discuss the issue.
‘Imagine if we talked about mental health as much as we talk about football,’ he says.
‘We’ve got to be able to be more open and more able to talk about stuff that affects your everyday life.’
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The Prince meets former England goalkeeper Joe Hart, who’s now 33 and struggling to get into the first team at Burnley, as he discusses the effects of being forced to cope with a very public decline in his career. England and Aston Villa’s Tyrone Mings spent several months in a homeless shelter while growing up and has worked with a psychologist after
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CONVERSATION
‘When I realised how long I was going to be out of action, I shut myself away,’ says Mings. ‘It’s hard to have that first conversation.
I’ve been in a lot of unfavourable situations growing up, so I know what it’s like to need help.’
Meanwhile, Chelsea boss Frank Lampard also opens up about how, the woodlands near his home in the New Forest, Iolo Williams broadcasting from his native Mid Wales and Gillian Burke exploring the Cornish coastline near her home.