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You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Presenter and broadcaster, Chris Latchem makes an emotional return to the hospital that saved his life to talk to the staff that got him through it, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester. From Sarah on reception, to John in haematology, Denise and Tracy in the blood room, and honorary consultant, Tim, we learn all about the roles, lives, and emotions of the staff who care for us. Towards the end, we also discover who's looking after the staff themselves.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello folks this is you me and the big sea I'm Chris Latcham and I've been given the |
| 0:19.9 | privilege of guiding us all through this episode. |
| 0:24.0 | Now if you've only just started listening to this podcast and I need you to know that there's a whole |
| 0:29.0 | vault of truly incredible material that's been recorded over the past five years or more since |
| 0:35.7 | 2018 Rachel Bland, Dame Deborah James, Lauren Mann and Steve Bland. |
| 0:41.6 | They've been talking about cancer and everything to do with cancer, all of the issues |
| 0:46.7 | that are impacted by cancer, and it's brilliant. They'll make you laugh, they will make you cry, |
| 0:51.7 | and they'll enlighten you about issues that you might never |
| 0:55.2 | have thought of. They share their personal experiences in the most |
| 0:57.9 | stripped back way and sadly for two of them Rachel and Dame Debbie the most stripped back way. They're no longer with us, but the |
| 1:04.9 | incredible content that they've made over that time lives on as they both wanted. |
| 1:10.3 | I've always been a keen listener of this podcast. I laughed with them I cried with them and I do urge you to go and do the same |
| 1:16.5 | You can find every prior episode that they've recorded on BBC Sounds so do that. Okay, so I've told you I'm Chris Latcham. I used to work with Rachel Blans at BBC 5 Live. I work with Steve Bland at 5 Live as well and Rachel actually died sadly six weeks before my own diagnosis with leukemia I |
| 1:36.2 | remember where I was I was with my then girlfriend Lucy and we were on what we |
| 1:40.0 | thought was a romantic walk up the Orest Head in the Lake District and the BBC News |
| 1:45.7 | app popped and we got the news that Rachel had died. |
| 1:49.9 | That was September 2018 and then six weeks later Halloween I got my diagnosis and time just |
| 1:56.2 | stopped I couldn't tell you what I got for Christmas that year or what we did for Christmas that |
| 2:01.6 | year or who we spent that Christmas with that year was a very weird time and it came |
| 2:07.2 | off the back of a time where I thought I was flying in life I got my dream job early |
| 2:12.1 | 30s really enjoying life with a woman that I loved and all of a sudden |
| 2:16.0 | just everything got ripped up and yeah for months it was like that really until my care |
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