#103 Olivia Williams

Griefcast

Bereavement, Death, Arts, Performing Arts, Cariad Lloyd, Grief, Loss, Self-improvement, Comedy Interviews, Education, Comedy

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This week Cariad talks to actress Olivia Williams (Sixth Sense, Dolls House, An Education) about her Dad who died six years ago. November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness month and Olivia was recently diagnosed with a cancer in her pancreas. Although her cancer wasn't officially pancreatic cancer, there are so few survivors of PC that Pancreatic Cancer UK have asked her to talk about her experience to raise awareness of the disease. As ever they talk grief, morgues + Bonne Maman jars.

Demand Survival Now is PCUK's new campaign for pancreatic cancer awareness month, if you head to www.demandsurvivalnow.org.uk you can sign and spread the word on social media. Despite huge progress in the diagnosis and treatment in recent decades, pancreatic cancer remains the deadliest common cancer. It is 8 times more deadly than other common cancers like prostate, breast or bowel cancer. There are no screening programmes or early detection tests and vague symptoms – such as back pain, indigestion or weight loss – mean tragically pancreatic cancer is detected too late to save lives. 1 in 4 people die within a month of diagnosis. We need Governments to recognise pancreatic cancer as an emergency and act, if we are to transform survival.

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0:20.0	You're listening to Giefcast with me, Carrie Adloyd.
0:25.0	How do we Gief for someone?
0:27.0	How does it change in a role as we get older?
0:31.0	My dad died when I was 15 and it took me many, many years to be able to express what I had gone through.
0:38.0	So I decided to create Giefcast, a chance to talk, share and laugh about the weirdness of Gief and death.
0:45.0	But with comedians, so it's not that depressing, I promise.
0:50.0	Each time I talked to a different comedian about their own personal experience of Gief,
0:54.0	as we remember someone that they have lost along the way.
0:57.0	Whether it was a long time ago or you've just joined the club,
1:00.0	this is a chance to talk about the peculiar human process of death.
1:05.0	Welcome to Giefcast.
1:17.0	Hi it's Cedete Kant and I've just released my first book, Breathe.
1:20.0	It tells my personal story of being diagnosed with Adlo Ense Asma after training for the London marathon.
1:26.0	I can't believe that this was a direct result of Breathe in in the city I love.
1:30.0	London wasn't just facing a climate crisis, it was facing a health crisis.
1:35.0	So when I was first elected as Mayor of London, I vowed to clean up London's air and tackle climate change together.
1:41.0	Breathe details that journey and is available in Hardback and Audio Book now.
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