About Losing A Parent
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Good friend of the podcast, Tony Livesey hosts the first episode of this brand new series looking into the issues around losing a parent to cancer when you're young. He speaks to one of his oldest friends Dave for the first time about how they both felt when one of their parents died of cancer when they were boys.
He meets Zara who lost her Mum a few years ago when she was just 13 and speaks to her father Gaz, Tony then speaks to the team at Pendleside Hospice family support who have been helping Zara's family and Stevie Goulding from Young Minds. To find out what help and advice is on offer for youngsters today.
Don't forget, you can get in touch by using the #youmebigc across all forms of social media - spread the word and share the positive support.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello and welcome to, I can say, the legendary |
| 0:20.2 | you me and the big C, my name is Tony Livsie, I can't tell you what an honour it is to be |
| 0:24.9 | actually introduced in the podcast, I've been on it a million times, I've contributed all along |
| 0:30.4 | the way but they've given me an episode and I'm very proud to be involved. If you've just started |
| 0:35.2 | listening to you me and the big C, then I need to tell you about three amazing women, Rachel |
| 0:40.2 | Bland, Dame Deborah James and Lauren Marn, they began this. I was at the time, a brief |
| 0:46.3 | pilot history, I was working with Rachel on Drive on Five Live when she kind of came up with |
| 0:50.3 | the idea and she chose Deborah and Lauren to be her compatriots and they created between them |
| 0:55.5 | this amazing library of information, humour, hope, well-being, all about the issues around |
| 1:03.5 | cancer and they got rid of a lot of the bull as well along their way and made it accessible |
| 1:07.7 | to anybody who's been affected by it and of course Rachel's husband Steve got it, |
| 1:12.3 | heavily involved as well after her, sad death and of course we lost Dame Deborah recently and |
| 1:17.9 | here I'm going to mention this because it was Deborah's as well as mine. I had the last radio |
| 1:22.6 | conversation with Debs when she was in a garden and she knew she was dying and it was an amazing |
| 1:26.7 | moment. So we've got history, I've got history with you me and the big C and those three amazing |
| 1:31.6 | ladies. So all that I've mentioned, that library, if you or someone you know has got cancer, go |
| 1:36.8 | along to BBC Sounds because there will be something in that library of you me and the big C |
| 1:40.5 | podcast that will be very pertinent to you. So that's kind of what this is, why I'm here today |
| 1:48.2 | is interesting to me anyway, well I want to try and find a few answers about what happened to me |
| 1:52.1 | in my life. When I was 13, my mum died of cancer and interestingly this was, so this was 1977 |
| 1:58.3 | and my family chose not to tell me that she was ill for one thing. I mean I had been visiting |
| 2:04.1 | in hospital but my head would have gone if I think, if I'd known she'd had cancer and I wouldn't |
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