Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby tells the amazing true story of Scott and Jemma Bennett’s infant daughter Olivia and her battle with a rare genetic condition, how she was nearly fatally misdiagnosed and how Scott challenged the hospital to improve their care - by taking his dad’s advice to “Put a tie on”.

First-time parents Scott and Jemma are taken from the apparently idyllic world of having a new-born baby who sleeps through the night and suddenly plunged into months of misguided treatments, genetics, bizarre side effects and private jets.

Recorded in Scott and Jemma’s home town of Nottingham - where the real-life story began - this is an emotional show about a critically ill baby but it’s also a really funny one with a happy and hopeful ending.

Written and Performed by Scott Bennett

Produced by Ben Walker

A DLT Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.7	Right, start at the beginning.
0:07.7	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:09.7	Okay, hello.
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0:33.3	The only thing left to do now is Ron.
0:37.6	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, Mr. Scott Bennett.
0:46.7	Thank you so much, Nottingham. It's lovely to see you all. Thank you for being here. I'm Scott Bennett, and it's so lovely to do this story tonight here in Nottingham. It's a very special place for me, as Nottingham, because it's where this story happened. So I'm invested in this place, and not just emotionally. Tonight, I've parked in the NCP car park. Yeah, can I have a minute's silence for my wallet, please. It's not a great start to your evening when you know that your car is on a better
1:14.6	hourly... park. Can I have a minute's silence for my wallet, please? It's not a great start to your evening
1:12.5	when you know that your car is on a better hourly rate than you are. But what's interesting
1:18.7	about this show is it wasn't my idea, right? It was my manager's idea to do this show. He says,
1:23.0	you've got this incredible story about your daughter's rare blood sugar condition. I think you
1:26.8	should tell it. I said, I don't know, mate.
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