C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too - John Diamond

Well, here I am sitting at my office desk today, COMPLETELY sunburnt to a crisp (80 degree heat yesterday). The reason for my lobsterishness is the fact that I bought John Diamond's biography on Saturday. I was inspired to buy this book after watching the documentary a couple of months back on John Diamond and his fight against cancer. I bought it out of pure interest and curiousity and that was that. For those of you who don't know, the late John Diamond was a broadcaster who blagged his way into journalism and was married to Nigella Lawson and had two young children. It seems particularly cruel that he was struck down by cancer of the tongue when such ...

Writer and broadcaster John Diamond has cancer. For a broadcaster, he has a particularly cruel type of tumour, one which has (hopefully temporarily) robbed him of his voice. Luckily though, it has not taken his writing skills, nor completely eradicated his ascerbic sense of humour - although it is easy to imagine the latter becoming a bit 'dented' on bad days. Since diagnosis, he has written frank accounts of the progression of his disease and the treatment he has received in his regular newspaper columns, prompting hundreds of letters from readers wishing he had been writing when they had been diagnosed.In doing so, he shattered many of the taboos ...