About Cancer on Coronation Street
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
The #youmebigc team look at the way cancer storylines are told in soaps and take a trip to television's most famous cobbles – Coronation Street.
Debs, Lauren and Steve speak to the two actors involved in one of the biggest soap stories of the year – Katie McGlynn and Rob Mallard, who play Sinead and Daniel Osbourne.
We speak to Corrie legend Sally Dynevor, who plays Sally Metcalfe, formerly Webster and Seddon and tells us how she was diagnosed with breast cancer in real-life, just days after her character was diagnosed in the soap.
Plus, we're joined by Corrie story producer Lindsay Williams and Pete Wallroth from Mummy's Star, a charity dedicated to women and their families affected by cancer during pregnancy, who worked as an adviser on Sinead and Daniel's storyline.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:07.0 | It's an awful thing to say because when people like yourselves hold you don't go to |
| 0:17.5 | the world, you may have been crying a little bit. I'm like yes. |
| 0:24.5 | I don't need it. I'm with a little collection of tears. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello and welcome to You Me and the Big Seavid Me, Laura Mann, otherwise known as Girl |
| 0:35.2 | Versus Cancer, Deborah James, aka Balbae and Steve Bland, otherwise known as Wony Steve |
| 0:41.5 | Bland. We are all friends who have one thing in common, |
| 0:44.6 | you have a relationship with cancer and we want to tell you about the highs as well as |
| 0:48.0 | the lows. If you're new to the podcast, we've covered a load of topics and they're all available |
| 0:52.4 | wherever you do your podcasts. You can get in touch with us to suggest you to topics |
| 0:56.7 | and ask us your experiences by using the hashtag You Me, Big Seavid across all forms of |
| 1:02.0 | social media. Now this podcast today is a bit different as we are recording from one |
| 1:07.4 | of the nation's most famous cobbles that is Coronation Street. |
| 1:11.0 | Woo! Beyond it, decided to talk to you all about cancer storylines and really get an |
| 1:16.3 | idea of what goes into putting them onto our screens. It's a topic we've been wanting |
| 1:21.0 | to talk about for a really long time, so we want to thank everyone here at Coronation |
| 1:24.5 | Street for allowing us to come and do this. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah and the reason we're doing it now is because right now Corrie's got a really powerful |
| 1:31.3 | cancer storyline going on. It's making big headlines of our two young characters, Shaneid |
| 1:35.6 | Osborne, played by Katie McGlin and her husband Daniel Osborne played by Rob Marlard and we'll |
| 1:40.0 | be chatting to both of those guys later on. Shaneid was a diagnosed with cervical cancer, |
| 1:44.4 | however she got through that and even gave birth to a son called Bertie. The cancer returned |
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