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Bad Blood: The Diary of a Cancer
Jamie East
Frequency: 1 episode/4d. Total Eps: 3
At some point 1 in 2 people will be affected by cancer.
I was the same as you whenever I read that stat, I just always felt sorry for the other guy. Plot twist… you will occasionally be the other guy.
In June 2025, after a completely random visit to the doctor, I was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia, which despite its fun sounding name, isn’t exactly a barrel of laughs. Sh** got real quite quickly.
Up until then, I was a healthy, active, happy and successful man, heading into middle-age with carefree abandon. Life has a funny way of humbling you.
As someone who’s lived their life in front of a camera, microphone or audience, my knee-jerk reaction was (no, not to monetise it) switch on the recorder and talk myself through it - making sense of my diagnosis (what even is Leukaemia?) the impending chemotherapy, my family and how our lives had been flipped on it’s head.
Look, there are tons of these podcasts out there, by some incredible people with stories far more horrific than mine (spoiler alert - I’m typing myself this a year later) - but if a perplexed, foul-mouthed audio diary from someone who once interviewed Jedward in a carpark is your thing, you’re in the right place.
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jeudi 25 juin 2026 • Duration 01:52
Trigger Warning: This podcast tackles topics that some listeners may find distressing.
Resources:
Leukaemia UK - a brilliant charity.
More information on Chronic Myleoid Leukaemia
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2. The Biopsy
Season 1 · Episode 2
vendredi 3 juillet 2026 • Duration 25:02
In this episode, Jamie heads to the Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre in Glasgow, meeting Professor David Vitrie and Dr. Vigne Helgerson to dig into what chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) actually is – and how long it might have been silently living in his body.
What starts as a “back‑of‑the‑fag‑packet” explanation of CML turns into something far more personal. Jamie reflects on the moment he realised he’d likely been walking around with leukemia for years, and how that reframed his sense of hope, his future, and what really matters.
From there, the episode moves into the very raw, practical side of a new cancer diagnosis: waiting for specialists, navigating private vs NHS care, enduring a bone marrow biopsy, and facing the word “chemo” for the first time.
Trigger Warning: This podcast tackles topics that some listeners may find distressing.
Resources:
Leukaemia UK - a brilliant charity.
More information on Chronic Myleoid Leukaemia
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1. The Phonecall
Season 1 · Episode 1
vendredi 3 juillet 2026 • Duration 21:50
The Phone Call That Changed My Life.
In the first episode of Bad Blood: The Diary of a Cancer, Jamie opens up about the moment everything changed: the phone call that told him he likely had leukaemia.
Recorded around the time of his initial diagnosis and revisited one year on, this episode sets the stage for a four-part series charting Jamie’s journey through chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) from shock and disbelief to treatment and trying to find a “new normal”.
Trigger warning: This episode contains candid discussion of cancer, leukemia, illness, medical procedures, and strong language. Please listen with care if you’re feeling vulnerable around these topics.
Trigger Warning: This podcast tackles topics that some listeners may find distressing.
Resources:
Leukaemia UK - a brilliant charity.
More information on Chronic Myleoid Leukaemia
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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