UK radio presenter Jamie Theakston is again at work having undertaken a number of months of most cancers therapy, and he says he has his common listeners to thank for serving to save his life.
Theakston co-presents the Coronary heart Radio breakfast present alongside Amanda Holden, and has been on air for 20 years, following a profitable tv presenting profession.
Theakston advised The Instances of London that common listeners had been tuning in attentively, and a number of other had notified him of a change in his voice on air, urging him to have it medically checked:
“You do the present for 20 years, and also you get a sore throat and it comes and goes. However there have been a few listeners who stated, ‘You actually need to get it checked.’ And I suppose in lots of ways in which type of saved my life. With out being too dramatic about it.”
Together with his spouse additionally urging him to get his recurrent sore throat checked, Theakston consulted a specialist and was identified with laryngeal most cancers, a uncommon illness that attacked his voice field.
Following three surgical procedures and a number of other months off work, Theakston returned to work in January, broadcasting to an viewers of 4.2million. His radio present is the most important non-BBC within the UK, with an everyday viewers of 4.2million.
In 2019, Coronary heart Radio folded all its separate regional radio stations, opting as a substitute to have Theakston and Holden broadcast nationwide. Of the native jobs that went with the transfer, Theakston advised The Instances: “The blame ought to fall very strongly on the BBC’s shoulders. Industrial radio doesn’t have a duty to supply native programming. Our duty is to get the numbers to permit the gross sales staff to promote the adverts.”
