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Jenny Diski: “Please don’t call me braveâ€

David Schneider visited the journalist and writer Jenny Diski in January 2016. In the summer of 2015, Jenny Diski was told that she had inoperable lung cancer. She wrote about the experience and her treatment, with her usual wit and candour. But as she said, "I tell jokes but that doesn't mean that I'm not terrified at the prospect of my own non-existence."

First broadcast on One to One, 26 January 2016.

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