PuckerUp4PH Birthday Celebrations
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010The 6th of July was the first birthday of the PuckerUp4PH campaign. Campaign director Paul Pennington was joined by the Chairman of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK, Iain Armstrong, for a series of radio interviews with BBC and independent stations to launch the campaign and talk about PH. Huge thanks to all the PHA UK members who shared their PH journey with listeners from Chorley to Qatar. Below you can click on the links to listen to the audio from these interviews.
BBC Radio Jersey – Iain Armstrong & Paul Pennington
BBC Radio Leicester – Jenny Leafe & Iain Armstrong
BBC Radio Northampton – Jacqui & Mark Boldy
BBC Radio Kent – Lucinda Duxbury Smith & Iain Armstrong
Chorley FM – Iain Armstrong & Paul Pennington
Whilst in the studios at BBC Radio Northampton, Jacqui Boldy didn’t waste any time in getting her favourite radio DJ Bernie Keith to slap on some blue lippy and PuckerUp4PH!
We were delighted also to see photographs of the cast of the popular West End Musical ‘Wicked’ feature in a med-ed press article on Health Republic. The Wicked cast recently were kind enough to spare some time from their hectic performing schedule to Pucker Up and send some blue lip prints and photos of their antics back to us.
Congratulations to PHA Israel, who launched their own push to get as many blue lip prints as possible today in Tel Aviv with the creative idea of staging a kissing wall. A more detailed round up with photos and hopefully some video to follow in the next day!
Also to come is the full story of the inspiring efforts of the Grupo de Apoyo para Pacientes de Hipertensión Pulmonar en Puerto Rico from their first ambitious event at the Plaza Las Americas a few weeks back to yesterday’s kiss collecting at the Hospital Auxilio Mutuo in San Juan!