Radiotherapy: Death Talk on Primetime National Radio—The Steve Hewlett Interviews

Brennan, Michael (2022) Radiotherapy: Death Talk on Primetime National Radio—The Steve Hewlett Interviews. Mortality. ISSN 1357-6275

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Abstract

Between October 2016 and February 2017, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of interviews with presenter Eddie Mair and journalist Steve Hewlett, following Hewlett’s diagnosis with esophageal cancer. These interviews, which became compelling listening—and for a brief moment, part of public conversation—provide the focus for this article. Three broad but overlapping themes are identified from analysis of the interviews: 1) the subjective lived experience of illness, and specifically, esophageal cancer; 2) the experience of navigating UK cancer care, and debates about the organisation and delivery of UK healthcare; and 3) the function of talk in mediating the experience of living with/dying from cancer. Two further strands are woven into the discussion: the specificity of male cancer talk; and radio as a medium for facilitating first-person narratives of illness/dying.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information and Comments:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Mortality on 15/2/2022, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13576275.2022.2039603
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Michael Brennan
Date Deposited:	16 Feb 2022 15:19
Last Modified:	04 Jan 2023 11:43
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3487

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