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You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
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4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
We wanted to share this podcast with you. In the week in which King Charles III shared his cancer diagnosis, Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson asked why it’s important to talk about cancer. Stephen Fry talks about his own diagnosis of an aggressive prostate cancer and we also hear from Paralympian Erin Kennedy, the BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen, broadcaster Edward Stourton and from Steve Bland whose partner, the ‘You, Me and the Big C’ host Rachael Bland, died of cancer in 2018.
Nick also talks to Amol about his own experience of cancer and they speak to Professor Pat Price, one of the country’s leading oncologists, about why survival rates in the UK are lower than other countries. Details of help and support with cancer are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello and this is you me and the big sea. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Steve Bland and actually this isn't really you me and the big sea. I'll explain a little more in a second. |
| 0:28.0 | But thank you very much for having me back. It's been a little while hasn't it since I popped up on our |
| 0:35.5 | podcast. If you're a new listener I presented the podcast with Lauren Mann and Deborah James |
| 0:40.9 | going back a number of years ever since my first wife Rachel Bland died from her breast cancer in 2018 and we've handed the podcast over to a load of guest presenters over the past few months who've done |
| 0:54.9 | some amazing legacy podcasts and you can listen to all of those on BBC Sounds or whatever you get |
| 1:00.4 | your podcasts from. So why am I back? Well and why is it? whatever you mean, |
| 1:03.0 | and why am I back? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, and why is it not really, |
| 1:06.1 | you mean the big sea? |
| 1:07.2 | Well, let me explain. |
| 1:09.1 | Last week or a week and a half ago now or so the king was diagnosed with cancer and it led to me getting a phone call from the today program on radio four and they asked if I would go on their podcast with Amal Rajin and Nick Robinson talking about my experience of losing somebody close to me |
| 1:29.6 | and also just my experience of being in the cancer world over the past five or six years and it was a really great |
| 1:38.1 | experience I achieved something of a lifelong ambition in that I was on the same podcast as Stephen Fry, one of my absolute comedy idols. |
| 1:49.0 | Now I didn't actually meet him or even speak to him on the podcast. We're on different sections but I'm still on the |
| 1:54.6 | same podcast so I'm taking that as a win. Also on the podcast is Professor Pat Price who is a |
| 2:01.3 | leading oncologist and Pat was involved with the catch-up with cancer campaign, which you might remember |
| 2:09.6 | the parents of our big podcast friend Kelly Smith were involved in setting up after Kelly's |
| 2:15.3 | death two or three years ago during COVID. Professor Price, Stephen Fry, I'm tucked in the middle somewhere, but here we thought you might like to listen to it. |
| 2:28.4 | So here we go, yeah, take a listen. |
| 2:31.3 | I learned from the Today program this week |
| 2:35.0 | that one in two people in this country |
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