LUMP Adventurous Audio

"As time stretches out between me and the shock of those early diagnosis days, I’m spending more and more time with cancer as a back note, a gentle hum to my day. I cook, I write, I read, I see friends, we laugh, alot.  All of these things I do with a body that doesn’t work as well as it did and probably never will again. All of these things I do with a body which is significantly scarred and changed. It’s the physicality of cancer that will be my personal tinnitus.
But I am living with it, I am not defined by it. I am not cancer. And that discovery feels like a small triumph."
Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. 
Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.
Read more here
Written and narrated by Pennie Latin-Stuart
Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener
It was recorded by the legends who are Dave and Johnny at The Music Shed Recording Studios
Special thanks to Incredible Feet for their inspiration and belief in the importance of LUMP and for constantly reminding us that while every cancer journey is unique, we never need to run it alone.
You'll find the written version of this episode here.

This was one of the hardest episodes for Pen to write and then read back. None of us likes to admit when we're being a bit of a dick but its only by being honest about ourselves, how we're feeling and perhaps our less appealing qualities, that we get to go to work on feeling a bit better. So here Pen wrestles with the notion that she's jealous, something she hates to admit.
Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener
It was recorded by the legends who are Dave and Johnny at The Music Shed Recording Studios
Special thanks to Incredible Feet for their inspiration and belief in the importance of LUMP and for constantly reminding us that while every cancer journey is unique, we never need to run it alone.
You'll find the written version of this episode here.
Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. 
Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.
Read more here
Written and narrated by Pennie Latin-Stuart

One of the hardest things about cancer is that it rips away the sense of having choice over your life, you lose control. In this episode Pen wrestles back control by choosing to take a walk up the hill above the house in search of understanding as to why she still feels so angry at cancer for stealing choice from her. Powerful, insightful and inspiring, writing which takes you way beyond the subject of cancer and ploughs into the human condition.
Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener
It was recorded by the legends who are Dave and Johnny at The Music Shed Recording Studios
Special thanks to Incredible Feet for their inspiration and belief in the importance of LUMP and for constantly reminding us that while every cancer journey is unique, we never need to run it alone.
You'll find the written version of this episode here.
Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. 
Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.
Read more here
Written and narrated by Pennie Latin-Stuart

A call from an old friend prompts Pen to mull over what we give of ourselves to others. Should she worry about how honest she's been in writing her blog (and by association in this podcast), should she be fearful of the message that being so brutally honest sends out?
"We want to be known.  And we do.  But we want to carefully curate what is known about us.  Look at facebook, twitter, in fact all social media and you get a distilled concentrate of how each and every participant wants to be known.  Facebook doesn’t paint a portrait so much as provide a series of self-styled snapshots, group them together and you get an outline of a figure but the detail is often missing.  I doubt I’m alone in diving into the profiles and newsfeeds of both relative strangers and long lost acquaintances to see how they want to be known..."
Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. 
Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.
Read more here
Written and narrated by Pennie Latin-Stuart
Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener
It was recorded by the legends who are Dave and Johnny at The Music Shed Recording Studios
Special thanks to Incredible Feet for their inspiration and belief in the importance of LUMP and for constantly reminding us that while every cancer journey is unique, we never need to run it alone.
You'll find the written version of this episode here.

After making her exit from 25 years at the BBC, Pen ruminates on what on earth she'll say if she's asked "what do you do?". We're so hung up on labelling each other and ourselves but what label do you choose as an ex-BBC ex-Radio producing ex-cycling cancer warrior?
Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. 
Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.
Read more here
Written and narrated by Pennie Latin-Stuart
Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener
It was recorded by the legends who are Dave and Johnny at The Music Shed Recording Studios
Special thanks to Incredible Feet for their inspiration and belief in the importance of LUMP and for constantly reminding us that while every cancer journey is unique, we never need to run it alone.
You'll find the written version of this episode here.

Time to leave the BBC and push 25 years of her life to one side, but leaving a workplace during lockdown over zoom is distinctly weird...
"It feels ever so slightly like attending my own wake.  People say lovely, generous, heartfelt things which make me squirm with embarrassment.  I’m deeply suspicious I tell them, people always say nice things after someone dies, always sing their praises, this has the distinct whiff of being buried alive, tomorrow you’ll be slagging me off something rotten I laugh at them, you’ll be having an o-bitch-uary!  I talk too much, soak up as much time as possible in a bid to stop them saying how much I’ll be missed.  Finally at the end of the third zoom meeting we say a last farewell and each person leaves the meeting one by one switching off their camera..."
Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener
It was recorded by the legends who are Dave and Johnny at The Music Shed Recording Studios
Special thanks to Incredible Feet for their inspiration and belief in the importance of LUMP and for constantly reminding us that while every cancer journey is unique, we never need to run it alone.
You'll find the written version of this episode here.
Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. 
Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.
Read more here
Written and narrated by Pennie Latin-Stuart