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4. I Don't Know How Long I've Got Left

Janey doesn鈥檛 know how long she鈥檚 got left, so she鈥檚 telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life-affirming stand-up at its very best.

Janey Godley doesn鈥檛 know how long she鈥檚 got left, so she鈥檚 telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life affirming stand-up at its very best.

In this last episode of the series, Janey confronts her terminal diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and jokes about how she copes, how the people around her cope, and what she thinks her legacy might be. She tells a fascinating story about her mother and friends around the kitchen table singing, and there's a bolt of comedy lightning that's very fitting.

Since Janey鈥檚 comedy career began, she鈥檚 exposed, on stage, many painful traumas from her life - from childhood neglect and sexual abuse, to marrying into a gangster family who eventually turned on her, and even the murder of her mother - with a seeming lack of sentimentality and the blackest of humour.

Relentlessly authentic, she's also had to face up to her own mistakes - taking responsibility and apologising both publicly and onstage, as well as sharing the shame of being 鈥榗ancelled鈥 and the very dark place that took her to.

Then, just months later... the hand grenade of a cancer diagnosis forced her to start fighting for her life.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she鈥檚 been through in life, maybe she鈥榮 not 鈥渇ine鈥, and with a terminal diagnosis, she鈥檚 submitted to the ultimate 鈥楥 bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

And as a result of this insight, she鈥檚 more hilarious and compelling onstage than ever.

Recorded live in front of an audience in her hometown, Glasgow.

A Dabster production for 成人快手 Radio 4

28 minutes

On radio

Tuesday 18:30

Broadcasts

  • Tue 11 Jul 2023 18:30
  • Tue 18 Jul 2023 22:00
  • Tuesday 18:30