Podcasts

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My Survival Story

After being confronted with grim statistics and sad stories online while researching his pancreatic cancer diagnosis, Martin, a 32-year-old Swiss guy, decides to look for more relatable stories. He and his wife Katarina decide to travel once around the world to interview cancer survivors. In this series you’ll join the couple on their journey and hear from the people they met.

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You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer

A candid look at cancer, with Steve Bland, Deborah James and Lauren Mahon.

Goodbye to all this

This is a story of a woman navigating the death of her husband from cancer and raising two girls without him.

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Life isn’t always bright and shiny, as Kate Bowler knows. Kate is a young mother, writer and professor who, at age 35, was suddenly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, In, warm, insightful, often funny conversations, Kate talks with people about what they’ve learn in dark times

Life, Interrupted with Simon Thomas

Simon explores human endurance through the toughest times. In a series of interviews with well-known celebrities and notable people, he discovers how crisis and desperation can lead to hope and inspiration for a new and happy life.

For audio (iTunes).

& Then came Breast Cancer with Victoria Derbyshire

from FutureDreams Breast Cancer Charity

Well-known UK broadcaster, Victoria Derbyshire hosts this podcast which discusses topics around breast cancer.

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How Long Have You Got?

A podcast that tries to take the kerfuffle out of cancer. Jeremy Langmead and Sarah Edmundson, who both have cancer (recurrent prostrate cancer and secondary breast cancer respectively), discuss the high, lows and event the lols, that come with the disease. With the help of experts, and others with different cancer journeys to theirs, Jeremy and Sarah will tell it as it is. All the stuff they wish people had them. 

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So Now I’ve Got Breast Cancer …???

With Dr Liz O’Riordan
Everything you want to know about your breast cancer diagnosis but are too afraid to ask. If you’ve just been diagnosed, this is the show for you. Hosted by Dr. Liz O’Riordan, the Breast Surgeon with Breast Cancer.

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Griefcast with Cariad Lloyd

Griefcast is a podcast that examines the human experience of grief and death – but with comedians, so it’s cheerier than it sounds. A weekly interview podcast where media personalities share stories about loved ones they’ve lost. In each episode, Lloyd makes space for natural, unhurried conversations for her guests to talk about death where, in her words, “Nobody’s going to change the subject.”

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