cancer fundraising
Last December I travelled to Brighton to meet Steve Norman and Sabrina Winter for the The Record, my recently published book that I have written in memory of my mum who died of bowel cancer in 2016.
December 2018 saw me meet Skinny Lister before their sold out gig at The Garage in Highbury for my new bowel cancer charity book, The Record, which is out now.
In December 2017 I met Nicola Bryant for my bowel cancer charity book The Record. She is perhaps best remembered for playing “Peri Brown” in Doctor Who during the 1980s.
A year ago I travelled into London to meet with the BBC political presenter and journalist Nick Robinson. He currently presents The Today Programme on Radio 4, which means him getting up at 3.30am!
I tend to do a lot of posts about the people who feature in my books. These incredible people take centre stage, but let’s ease them to one side for a moment, and talk about another very important group of people who are the friends that I’ve made as a result of my fundraising.
The reason why Bill and everyone in the book is taking part is to help raise funds for Bowel Cancer UK, and to help raise awareness about this awful disease. My Mum died of bowel cancer in August 2016, having been first been diagnosed with cancer back in 2012. Bowel cancer claims 16,000 lives each year, making it the second highest cancer killer in the UK. Yet if detected early it can be successfully treated in over 90% of cases.
The chapter in The Record on Jeremy Cunningham and The Levellers was done in two parts.
Chapter 8 in The Record features my meeting with Rupert Moon the former Welsh rugby international at The Principality Stadium in Cardiff on an unseasonably warm October afternoon in 2018. It was one of those occasions where the whole experience just could not have been any better.
Television presenter Gregg Wallace features in The Record, my new charity book that is raising funds for Bowel Cancer UK. I met the host of MasterChef before his one man show at the Norden Farm Arts Centre in Maidenhead, which is the road where my mum and dad lived all their married lives, and where I grew up.
My new bowel cancer book, The Record, and includes my meetings with a couple of comedians, one of whom was Lucy Porter, who I met shortly before her gig at Norden Farm in Maidenhead.
