About Cancer and Creativity
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Actor and writer, Rosa Hesmondhalgh hosts this legacy episode discussing cancer and the creative arts, and how to remain creative when living with cancer. Rosa is joined in the studio by Britain's Got Talent finalist and stand-up comedian, Allan Finnegan, writer of 'FUFC' and member of the New Anthem Theatre Group, Mark Jackson, and Nottingham based artist, Carole Ellis. The episode begins with an extract from Rosa's award-winning one-woman show Madame Ovary, which she wrote about her experience with ovarian cancer.
Please be advised that this episode contains some strong language
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Rosa Hesmond Halch and thanks for downloading this episode of you, me and the Big Sea. |
| 0:05.4 | Just to let you know that this episode contains some strong language. |
| 0:10.1 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:14.0 | Even if I could finish something, write a poem that's talking about something important, |
| 0:19.0 | or a short story or play that meant something to people. |
| 0:23.0 | I don't think I could deal with anyone's criticism. |
| 0:25.0 | Any one woman's show, I right, will be compared to Fleabag. |
| 0:28.0 | And what would it be about? |
| 0:30.0 | Lying on the floor with a stomachache. |
| 0:32.0 | The portrait of the artist is a whiny bloated woman who can't get an acting job. |
| 0:37.0 | And actually, I'm really struggling to know what story I want to tell, but I know I need to tell it. |
| 0:45.0 | It's so important to tell your story, because otherwise people will keep asking you, |
| 0:49.6 | so what are you doing next? |
| 0:51.0 | You're right, don't you? Are you working on anything at the moment? |
| 0:54.4 | And if you call yourself a writer and don't write people will write you off and then |
| 0:58.7 | write the story for you. So, I need to get cracking for other people because I've always been good at this acting, writing, |
| 1:08.6 | so people are expecting it of me, so I should get on with it. |
| 1:15.0 | Fuck. I do think I might have IBS though. Hello and |
| 1:25.0 | welcome to you me and the Big Sea. I'm Rosa Hesmond Halsch and if you've just started listening to this |
| 1:33.8 | podcast Rachel Bland Dame Deborah James Lauren Mann and Steve Bland have already |
| 1:38.6 | covered loads of topics and spoken to all sorts of guests all All of these podcasts are available right now on BBC |
| 1:45.2 | Sounds and all other podcast places. So what you heard just at the beginning of this episode was |
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