'A Heart That Works'

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🗓️ 27 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The actor and comedian Rob Delaney is known for tackling heavy topics with humor. Fans of his hit tv show Catastrophe have seen that on full display. But what most viewers didn't know is that while making the last two seasons of that show he was going through the hardest experience of his life. His two year old son Henry died from brain cancer after extensive medical treatments. Delaney's new memoir A Heart That Works is raw and honest window into that painful period of his family's life.

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0:00.0	A quick heads up today's episode includes a reference to suicide.
0:04.6	The actor Rob Delaney is a very funny guy.
0:07.3	You know this if you've ever seen the hit-show catastrophe,
0:09.7	which he created and starred in with Sharon Horgan.
0:12.5	Do you want to have dinner?
0:14.9	Um...
0:16.6	Do you want to have dinner?
0:18.3	Yeah, that's why I asked.
0:20.4	Okay, um, do you have a wife or anything?
0:22.7	No.
0:23.2	No. Okay, well, I'll just...
0:25.6	I'll write down my number.
0:26.6	You know what? That's my work visa.
0:29.6	So if you...
0:31.1	Doesn't matter.
0:32.3	Okay.
0:33.1	What you probably don't know is that while Rob Delaney was filming
0:36.6	the last two seasons of catastrophe,
0:38.6	he was going through the hardest experience of his life.
0:41.2	Tell me about Henry.
0:42.8	Well, Henry is my son, um, who died at the age of two years, nine months.
0:50.2	He was born in a birthing pool at the wedding to the
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