Heart and Soul: The only thing certain in life
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In 2019, performer and writer Rochi Rampal found herself attending 10 funerals in one year. To contend with this, she embarked on her own “crash course” to better deal with death, and felt she had found a new attitude to both grief and dying. But Rochi was then given a new diagnosis that forced her to face the threat to her life that she thought she was ready for and the composure she thought she had was shaken. So Rochi wants to begin again and turns to faith and spirituality for answers.
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| 0:00.0 | This programme describes death and living with cancer. |
| 0:04.9 | March, 2024. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm sitting in the car park outside the cancer centre, |
| 0:11.5 | which is a place I have frequented many times for my chemotherapy treatment. |
| 0:17.0 | I am about to go and have a PET scan because despite my post- bowel cancer, all-clear CT scans, |
| 0:24.9 | there's been some little thing showing up on my lung. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Roachie Rampal and you're listening to Heart and Soul from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:36.2 | Literally a month ago, I was free of cares, |
| 0:40.7 | and then a month later, I'm back here again, |
| 0:45.0 | seeing things like my funeral flashing before my eyes, |
| 0:49.0 | and where will I die? |
| 0:50.8 | Will I be in a hospital bed? |
| 0:52.3 | Because I can't possibly be at home, |
| 0:54.1 | because the kids will be there, and that will be grotesque and horrible and who will be with me? And it's such a strange thing to be seeing those things on a Friday afternoon. |
| 1:05.7 | These recordings are from an audio diary I've been making since early 2024 |
| 1:10.8 | during the months I spent going in and out of hospital, |
| 1:15.5 | waiting to find out just how soon I was going to die. |
| 1:21.2 | May, 2024. |
| 1:24.3 | When a PET scan lights up, that is an indication that there is cancer. |
| 1:31.5 | The images on my PET scan have lit up. |
| 1:35.8 | A bright light of cancerous nodule in my lung. |
| 1:41.6 | So it's back. |
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