Podcast presenter’s campaigning has met with praise and admiration from charities, experts and patients
For more than five years, Deborah James, the presenter of the BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C, has put a spotlight on a cancer otherwise left in the dark, and with such authority that she was awarded a damehood late on Thursday.
With candour and humour, James has kept her co-hosts, listeners and social media followers up to date with her treatment for bowel cancer, even going so far as to dress up in a ‘poo suit’ in a BBC recording studio.
