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Hosted by Ginny Walker (Oh Beehive! Productions) · health · EN
Magical Match, a podcast all about real people with real stories around the important topic of stem cell donation and transplants.In each episode, I’ll be chatting with donors, recipients, those in supportive roles; and people who have been affected by either a personal experience or through another’s inspirational story. I hope that by opening the conversation around stem cell donation, we can inspire more people to sign up to the stem cell register, offering more hope to those in need.
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Signup to Generate a PitchMagical Match, a podcast all about real people with real stories around the important topic of stem cell donation and transplants. In each episode, I’ll be chatting with donors, recipients, those in supportive roles; and people who have been affected by either a personal experience or through another’s inspirational story.
Recent episodes include "MM S4 Ep4 - Alex Reeves - Donor" (29 August 2026, 25 minutes), "S4 Ep 3 - Lesley Calder, DKMS Volunteer Hub, Ann Hargreaves and Max Calder - Family First" (4 May 2026, 68 minutes), and "S4 Ep2 - Sarah Rogers - Head of Patient Involvement and Liam Rooney - Patient & Families Manager - Anthony Nolan" (30 December 2025, 46 minutes).
Magical Match publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 48 minutes across 29 episodes.
Booking probability for Magical Match is 21%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Magical Match requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Magical Match's contact route on record: verified email.
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Magical Match is a health podcast with 29 episodes published.
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In this episode, I chatted with Alex Reeves who works in recruitment, helping personnel leaving the armed forces with their next steps. We discussed Alex’s experience of donating his stem cells for a stranger and the...
Episode #27
In this episode I chatted with Lesley Calder, a DKMS volunteer involved with the Hertfordshire and Essex Volunteer Hub, her sister, Ann Hargreaves and Lesley’s son, Max Calder. We discussed Lesley’s experience with her...
In this episode I chatted with Sarah Rogers, Head of Patient Involvement and Liam Rooney, Patient and Families Manager from Anthony Nolan. We had a lively and meaningful conversation around two amazing events for...
September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month and in this episode, I chatted with Donor Recruitment Development Officer, Melissa Harvey from ACLT – The African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust. Melissa explained about her role...
In this episode I chatted with Donor Recruitment Manager and Lead Organiser of The Big Cheekender, Natasha Reid and PR and Media Officer, Bronagh Hughes from DKMS. We talked about their roles within the charity and...
Episode #23
In this episode I spoke with Andrew Foster about the stem cell journey and subsequent loss of his son, Rycroft at sixteen months, who had a rare inherited condition, called Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome. At the time we...
In this episode, recorded at the end of last year, I chatted with Liam Rooney, Patient and Families Manager and Car T Cell Therapy Clinical Nurse Specialist, Emily John, both from Anthony Nolan. We discussed the...
<p>In this episode I spoke with Charis Ober - Executive Director and Founder of the Save the Cord Foundation based in Tucson, Arizona.</p> <p>We chatted about the history of the Foundation, the importance of cord blood...
<p>In this episode, I chatted with Yaser Martini, Founder of the Team Margot Foundation. Yaser’s daughter, Margot was just a few months old, when she was diagnosed with blood cancer and needed a stem cell transplant...
<p>In this episode, I chatted with Beverley de Gale and Orin Lewis, parents of Daniel de Gale, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at the age of six, back in 1993 and was the first black individual in...
Episode #18
<p>In this episode, I talked with Martine Schuit van Reissen again, from the World Marrow Donor Association, based in the Netherlands. I also spoke with Dr Warren Fingrut, Haematologist and Assistant Professor in the...
<p>In this episode, I spoke with Martine Schuit van Reissen and Rhian Voskamp from the World Marrow Donor Association.</p> <p>We chatted about everything from the importance of education, the awareness around the need...
<p>In this episode, the second part of our two parter, we continue the conversation with Lisa Gosnay.</p> <p>In part two, we hear about her struggles with career progression, her subsequent health issues which led to...
<p>In this episode, we hear from Lisa Gosnay, who at 29, was diagnosed with Aplastic Anaemia.</p> <p>Lisa is an amazing person and has an extraordinary story. In this two-parter, we hear about her initial diagnosis and...
Episode #14
<p>In this episode we hear from Mike Niles, Author of 'Hard Graft,' - an incredible book combining the history and science of stem cells and donation. At its heart is a story of love and a mother's determination to save...
<p>In this episode we hear again from Andy Mitchell, who inspired this podcast's beginning back in February 2022.</p> <p>We chatted about his own experience as a stem cell donor and inspiration behind the Blues V Cancer...
Episode #12
<p>In this episode we hear from Jake and Nelson Andrade. Jake was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia aged 13 years old and has undergone not one, but two stem cell transplants and has turned his experience into a...
<p>In this episode, we hear from Louise Stevens, a mum of three boys, who talks candidly and openly about the loss of her four year old son, Jack, to JMML and the charity she set up with her husband, Gary in his honour...
<p>In this episode we hear from Ellie Moss, Donor Recruitment Co-ordinator - Follow-up / Patient Donor Contact with DKMS.</p> <p>We talked the huge impact that the extraordinary people who sign up to the stem cell...
<p>In this episode, we hear from Pete McCleave who was diagnosed with myeloma in 2016. He talks candidly about his own diagnosis and his drive to find a donor and effect change for others.</p> <p>We hear about his...
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Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, American Society of Pharmacovigilance
CEO and Managing Director of Serie A USA, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
board-certified Obstetrician & Gynecologist, California State University, Sacramento
DKMS
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