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Hi, it's producer Mike here. Five live and Tony Livesee have done this wonderful tribute

to Deborah. You were all so important to her, everyone who listened to you me in the

Big C, that we wanted to make sure that you got a chance to hear it. Obviously, Laza,

Steve, Alan I had just absolutely devastated about Deborah's death. We're all going to

get together soon to pay our own you me in the Big C tribute to our Dame. But in the

meantime, over to Tony. I'm Tony Livesee and I present the drive program on Five Live.

Welcome to a special and personal tribute to the you me and the Big C podcast host, Dame

Deborah James, who raised millions of pounds and was honoured with a Dame Hood before she

died of bowel cancer. Debs was many things. She was smart, funny, bold,

a brilliant company to be around. And most of all, for us, she was our friend, along

with our own Rachel, Blande and the campaigner Lauren Maun, these three remarkable women

took each of their cancer diagnosis and made a decision to change the narrative. What began

was the amazing you me and the Big C podcast where they talked about life, love and cancer

and they shared it with us in a way like no other. Here's their first episode. And what

you need to remember about this is this was the very first time they'd met in person.

It's the club we never wanted to join. The coolest club that you never want to be a part of.

I never want to be part of. I thought AA would come first for me to be perfectly

with it. I have the poo cancer. The gum cancer. I have the gum cancer. There's nothing

pink about my cancer. It's just brown. So I'm 36 years old. I was diagnosed just over

a year ago just before Christmas, nothing like a Christmas present, to be told that after

six months of a change of bowel habits, basically where I was I was pooing blood. I'm going

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