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How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

S2 Simon Thomas: ‘I’m going to pursue life again’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

BBC

Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

After a short illness, Simon Thomas lost his wife Gemma to cancer at the age of 40. He talks to Elis and John about how life has been since this traumatic moment in 2017.

Transcript

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0:05.6

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0:23.4

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0:28.3

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0:31.4

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0:37.0

BBC Five Live.

0:39.0

This is How Do You C.

0:41.0

With Ellis James and John Robbins.

0:43.0

Hello everyone welcome to how do you cope with Ellis and John.

0:47.0

Cracking interview coming up we do hope you enjoy it but before that Ellis how you doing how's your shame very pretty good

0:56.0

actually good shame yeah I would say I'm feeling broadly positive how about you good I kind of had a bit of meltdown about sort of being

1:08.4

annoyed about social media but I think I'm over that now. Okay. I had a

1:12.3

conversation with my friend and it really struck me because I we were talking about deleting

1:19.9

Twitter and I said well you know I Twitter is really useful for something is really useful for

1:24.8

information it's really useful for passing on information for sharing information well

1:30.0

especially if you're a performer of some kind yeah or if you're a company or if you're a performer of some kind. Yeah, or if you're a company or if you're anything.

1:35.8

So in a sense, Twitter is, and this is a quite,

1:41.0

this is a quite cynical take, but Twitter is useful if you've got something to sell.

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