How Long Have You Got?

It’s a year since Sarah Edmundson, the wonderful co-host of this podcast, died from breast cancer at the age of 38. As a tribute to her daughter, Sarah’s mum, Jacki, talks movingly about how she and her daughter coped with Sarah’s diagnosis, the reality of looking after someone in the last few weeks of their life, and when it’s time to say goodbye as their life draws to a close. This is an honest,...

This week Tessa Parry-Wingfield shares her extraordinary story. Tessa, who runs a communications company and lives in London with her husband and two daughters, was out for a regular run just over a year ago when her vision felt slighty blurry. It turned out she had a large tumour within her eye which very quickly had to be removed. Here Tessa reveals how it felt knowing an eye was to be taken out...

To open our second series, actor, presenter and writer Stephen Fry talks to Jeremy & Sarah about his own experience with prostate cancer - from diagnosis to surgery and life post-cancer. He discusses how kindness, contact and smiling are clinically proven to aid recovery. And, as a renowned wordsmith, we ask him to suggest alternatives to some of the terminology often used in the cancer commun...

There’s a fine line between selfishness and self-preservation when you’re living with cancer. You need to look after yourself, those around you need to understand and support you, and yet it can’t just be all about you…Or can it? Sarah and Jeremy on how to make that call. Do contact Macmillan, Breast Cancer Now, Prostate Cancer UK or Cancer Research UK if you or anyone you know is struggling with...