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Giles Coren Has No Idea

It's cancer but it's not a tragedy - Giles opens up about his "heartbreaking diagnosis".

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, Unknown, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary


This week Giles revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer. In this week’s episode he relives the moment he found out and the responses of those around him, and his own. Is it a big deal “it’s only a dash of cancer after all?” Or are he and Esther in denial? They consider the language around cancer and wonder why Bob hasn’t been in touch…?

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0:00.0

You're still alive then, darling?

0:03.2

Yes.

0:03.9

Following the tragic news of your heartbreaking, terrible...

0:09.0

Listen to how cheerful my wife is about my cancer diagnosis.

0:12.6

I feel you've got the tone wrong.

0:14.8

Have I?

0:15.3

Sorry about that.

0:16.5

Well, maybe for me, this is because this is...

0:19.0

Well, for you as well, but for me, this has been going on for about three years.

0:23.9

I got the news this time last week.

0:26.3

So we had the, this is, I think, crucial, and I broached it briefly in my very widely read piece about my cancer in the paper on Saturday,

0:34.2

which I hope Neil read, in which Neil starred in it, in which I had spoken

0:39.5

to, you know, my podcast, podcast producing Neil, about to say, listen, I'm getting this cancer

0:44.0

diagnosis, so like, let's postpone it. And if I've got cancer and I don't feel like it, I can

0:48.3

call you, but I don't want you have a wasted cycle, Ryan, and all that. And the upshot was, just came off the radio in the morning, it was a day

0:55.3

just like this. And they said and said, yeah, you've actually got cancer. And I went, okay, fine. And

1:00.5

then we found, you know, a millimeter of cancer in three of the 21 bits we took. It's only very,

1:06.4

very minor. It's a Gleason scale reading of three plus three, which is the lowest form. I know you're

1:12.2

bored with this. On stalled-ed wife, when is he going to die? What's the come on how long,

1:16.9

exactly how long as she thinks about her lovely... The first raised PSA test came back three years ago.

1:22.6

Oh, come on, but I've not been a wuss. I've hardly, I haven't talked about it in between. You haven't been a wuss at all. You are generally extremely physically brave anyway and you're very good at managing your health stuff. But the idea in the idea that you might have prostate cancer has I've been, I've had a long time to get used to it. And by the time, the night before we were waiting for the results, I went, you've just, you've 100% got cancer.

1:47.4

That was really supportive.

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