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Comedy of the Week

Sarah Mills' Bad Bod Squad

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Mills' comedy guide to dealing with a fallible and embarrassing body.

Since losing part of her bowel, comedian Sarah Mills has used a stoma bag. She might tell you that having a bag attached to her belly to collect her poo has made her unembarrassable - but the truth is she has always been completely shameless. Now, with the assistance of her outrageously candid celebrity guests, she wants to smash the taboos around bodily malfunctions and help us all banish bodily embarrassment for good.

Recorded in her home town of Stevenage, in this this week’s episode, Leaky, Sarah explores bodily spills with comedian and writer Ola Labib.

Created and written by Sarah Mills Starring Sarah Mills with special guest Ola Labib

Recording Engineer and Editor: Jerry Peal Recording Assistant: Guy Thomas Script Editor: Zoe Tomalin Associate Producer: Antonia Gospel Executive Producer: Alan Nixon Production Manager: Co- Producers: Gordon Kennedy and Sarah Mills

Recording in front of a live audience at Stevenage Lytton Players Theatre

An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4

Additional information on issues in this episode: https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/urinary-incontinence/

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy.

0:05.4

My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.

0:10.8

The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that.

0:17.5

With music on sounds, we offer collections and mixes for everything, from workouts to

0:22.4

helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put

0:28.3

together by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music in your life,

0:34.9

check out BBC Sounds.

0:41.3

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:51.4

Hello and welcome to the Bad BOD Squad, a show all about the embarrassing things our bodies do.

0:54.5

My name is Sarah Mills and I am a comedian,

0:57.6

disability campaigner and future national treasure.

1:04.0

Something you need to know about me is that I literally have no shame.

1:07.7

Like, I once had seven boyfriends all at once.

1:13.1

And because my name's Sarah, I ended up calling them the S Club 7.

1:20.1

I didn't think I could get much more unembarrassable, but then in 2018, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer. My doctor had to take so many stool samples from me. I ended up

1:24.9

offering him a loyalty card.

1:33.5

I even had to drop one off at the hospital over a weekend in the run-up to Christmas.

1:39.3

The whole place was deserted, but a nurse told me to leave it on the consultant's desk to be picked up on Monday.

1:43.2

Worst secret Santa ever.

1:50.1

Smash cut to now and I've made a full recovery but live with a stoma bag, big up NHS.

1:58.0

A stoma is an opening in the abdomen through which the intestine is rerouted into an external pouch.

2:01.2

What this means in practical terms is I now have a little bit of intestine that pokes out the front of my belly, kind of like a broken whack-a-mole.

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