Gamechangers: Leanne Pero
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Before lockdown, we'd started to record a new series speaking to gamechangers in the cancer community. Our first recording was with Leanne Pero and Charlotte Crowl, but due to Covid-19 everything was put on hold.
In this episode we catch up with Leanne. You'll hear the original recording from back in early March, alongside her thoughts of what's happened and changed since.
Leanne and Charlotte do a new podcast called 'Black Women Rising: The Untold Cancer Stories' where you can find out more about their amazing work - it's available in all the usual podcast places.
We aim to return to the cancer gamechangers series in the next few episodes, so if there's someone making a difference in your cancer community please tell us all about them by using #youmebigc across all forms of social media.
This episode is dedicated to our dear friend (and previous guest on the pod) Saima Thompson.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, you wonderful bunch, and thank you so much for joining us on yet another episode |
| 0:09.2 | of You Me and the Big C. Dropping in a little note here at the top of the podcast, |
| 0:14.6 | to honour some events that have tragically happened in the weeks since we recorded. |
| 0:21.5 | On Saturday night, a light went out in our cancer community, and it was one of the brightest. |
| 0:27.1 | On Saturday night, we said goodbye to our dear, dear, dear friend, Simon Thompson. |
| 0:35.2 | She is someone who has had a huge impact and has become a close friend to all of us in the pod. |
| 0:43.2 | As someone who made an incredible imprint on the cancer community, |
| 0:48.7 | not just for her work that she did within amplifying vain voices in cancer and changing |
| 0:54.4 | or representation looks like in the cancer community, but just because of her incredible spirit, |
| 1:00.9 | my heart goes out, all of our hearts go out, Simon's family and friends who were suffering at this time. |
| 1:08.5 | With this pod being based around Black women's cancer stories and the incredible work that Leanne |
| 1:17.6 | Perro does with Black women rising and with Simon being part of Black women rising, we thought it |
| 1:24.0 | only right that we dedicate this episode of You Me and the Big C to our darling friend, Simon. |
| 1:29.8 | We love You, we miss You, and we promise to keep on doing the work that you started. |
| 1:38.4 | We're going to keep amplifying your voice and those of yours in your community. |
| 1:42.7 | And for as long as we speak your name, you'll live on with all of us. |
| 1:47.2 | So we love You so much, Simon. This one is for You. Love You, Rest in Peace, We Go. |
| 2:01.1 | I've had it where I've told my story and then been trolled online and called, |
| 2:05.6 | you know, like I said, you're using the race card or you've got a chip on your shoulder. |
| 2:10.3 | After the trauma I've been through, through cancer, as you know, you all know we've all been through |
| 2:15.7 | traumatic times. Having that on top of it makes it 10 times worse. |
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