Episode 15

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Published on:

10th Nov 2023

A Wake

The brutal reality of what lies ahead is starting to sink in and Pennie's feeling the panic...

"I feel like I’m in a slow motion car crash and I can’t unbuckle my belt to step out. Everyone I know, all the people I love, with the best of intentions, are bunched together pushing the car at the wall, egging it on and although I’m leaning back, straining in my seat, pumping the break with my foot as hard as I can, nothing will stop the inevitable carnage. On Tuesday my surgeon will cut away my breast, push, persuade, twist and rearrange what’s left of my body into a shadow if it’s former shape then stitch me tight inside this new shell. I feel horrified. Undone. Sick."

Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer.

Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.

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Written and narrated by Pennie Latin-Stuart

Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener

It was recorded by the legends who are Dave and Johnny at The Music Shed Recording Studios

Special thanks to Incredible Feet for their inspiration and belief in the importance of LUMP and for constantly reminding us that while every cancer journey is unique, we never need to run it alone.

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About the Podcast

LUMP

A Story About Breast Cancer

Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. From dealing with diagnosis, the endless tests and mind-numbing fear to how and when to tell your child. Coping with physical changes and the impact on your self-esteem and self-confidence together with the sudden realisation life will never be quite the same ever again.

LUMP is a deep dive into the power of storytelling to help us heal and just get your head round the stuff of life. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.

Written and narrated by Pennie Latin-Stuart

LUMP: A Story About Breast Cancer is sponsored by https://www.headgardenerhair.com/

About your hosts

Adventurous Audio

The creative partnership behind Adventurous Audio is Pennie Latin Stuart and Dan Holland. We worked together as a team at the BBC for years—45 between us—producing an insane range of content, covering every conceivable topic from comedy to hard-hitting documentaries, food, the arts, science, music, sport and outside broadcasts, for just about every audio corner of the BBC - BBC Sounds and BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 4, Radio 3 and Radio 2.

Pennie Latin-Stuart

Pennie Latin-Stuart is a highly respected broadcaster, audio documentary maker, podcaster and blogger. She lives on the shores of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands where she regularly writes about landscape and wellbeing. When she’s not writing or podcasting she grows food, walks dogs, keeps bees, plays badminton, wild swims and generally works out how to squeeze the most out of all that life offers. She also makes a mean curry.