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Hello and welcome to you me and the big C with me Laura Mann, Nolan Socials as Girl

Versus Cancer, Deborah James, AKA BowBabe. Hello. Oh, there she is. And Steve Blant otherwise

known. Well, he's just Steve Blant. Only only, but hello. Only. Hi. And if you've just started

listening to this podcast, we've covered a whole heap of topics and spoke about all sorts

of things with our guests. All of these podcasts are available right now on BBC Sounds and

all your other podcast places. We also want to hear from you. So please get in touch with

us using the hashtag you me, big C across all forms of social media. We've got a very special

podcast for you today because we're celebrating the BBC World Service launching a new podcast

called Goodby to all this. This podcast tells the story of Sophie Townsend, who's an

internationally acclaimed audio storyteller, and her personal and moving account of the

illness and death of a husband. He died of lung cancer a few years ago. And it's all

about her attempts to cope with life and family and being a widow. Now, Sophie's story is

what many of us has had personal experience of either through ourselves, family or close

friends going through cancer. And later you can hear our interview with Sophie. And I have

to say it. I found it's well, we all found it so moving. And also we're going to let you

hear the first episode within this podcast because well, I think we're all blown away by

it and we can't wait for the follow up. But before that, we thought we'd have a chat

about a few things related to this podcast. So who's going to kick off? I think we just

thought, well, kick off with the idea of actually just opening up and sharing, well, when

we're at a war list at our lowest, arguably, well, actually, we're coming up to the four

year anniversary of me opening up and sharing my story. I actually did my first post on social

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