Podcast: Cancer Cafe

How a garden can enhance mindfulness

The Potager Garden in Cornwall is running sessions to help people with a cancer diagnosis. A garden is a therapeutic environment – and that’s director Mark Harris’s view. He’s working with The Cove (MacMillan service at Royal Cornwall Hospital) to give people an experience of horticultural mindfulness. Emma and I are also discussing how new…

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Faith, hope & cancer – A Cornish priest’s view

Nicky Lampshire is one of the managers at The Cove – a unit at The Royal Cornwall Hospital operated by MacMillan Cancer Support. It is a welcoming place with a cafe and many supportive programmes to help patients through every stage of cancer. We ask Nicky about her work there. Find out more from our…

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What is the Cove about?

Nicky Lampshire is one of the managers at The Cove – a unit at The Royal Cornwall Hospital operated by MacMillan Cancer Support. It is a welcoming place with a cafe and many supportive programmes to help patients through every stage of cancer. We ask Nicky about her work there. Find out more from our…

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Music therapy

Matthi and Emma meet Claire and Emma who run music therapy sessions at The Cove centre at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. We find out how they came to take up the role and what benefits are available to those with a diagnosis of cancer. We even have a mock-up music therapy session in the studio.

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Cornwall, My Home

‘Cornwall, My Home’ has become Cornwall’s new anthem. It is sung everywhere and at Cornwall’s most important events. How many realise, however, that the composer has a cancer story of his own? We meet Harry Glasson and find out about how he had built so much of his life around singing and music, to only…

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Introducing Emma: Our Co-host

This week, we are introducing co-host Emma Coombe who is in treatment currently for melanoma. We recorded most of this podcast in a quiet room at The Cove centre at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. I know how important it is to our listeners that the team has lived experience to be able to share support….

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Cancer Support UK

This podcast series, sponsored by The National Lottery Community Fund, aims to bring a wide range of thoughts and people to talk about supporting people through cancer. Some of these are those with lived experience, others are those providing support. This episode talks with the chief executive of Cancer Support UK – Mark Guymer. He…

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Cornwall Cancer Cafe Podcast

Welcome to the first episode of the Cornwall Cancer Cafe Podcast. We are supported financially by the National Lottery Community Fund to run a year of weekly cancer support podcasts. These will be a weekly audio show and some videos too. We aim to give people with a diagnosis, their family and friends a big…

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