Join me and Vince in 12 minutes of light-hearted year-end special of Why Is It So? featuring laughter, festive style Christmas songs, reflections on 2025, gratitude to listeners, and warm wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

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Paul

Today’s guest is someone exceptionally qualified to bring clarity and insight to the world of urological cancer.

In this episode of Y Is It So, Professor Nathan Lawrentschuk explains where the prostate is, how it works, and why PSA testing matters. He outlines the latest advances in prostate screening, MRI and PSMA PET imaging, active surveillance, focal therapy, robotic surgery.

Professor Lawrentschuk emphasises informed conversations with your GP, knowing your family history, and the benefits of early detection to improve outcomes while minimising unnecessary treatment and side effects.

In this episode I have a chat with Phillip Othen, a London-based podcaster who has thought about death and non-existence daily since his early teens. Phillip shares how insomnia sparked a lifelong fear of not existing, how he channels that anxiety into his podcast "The Man Who Was Scared to Death", and how therapy and coping strategies have shaped his life.

The conversation explores Death Cafés, a movement all around the world, interviews with people who work around death, and whether talking openly about mortality can make the subject less frightening and more constructive.