Janey Godley: The C Bomb

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Janey doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes!

Janey doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life-affirming stand-up at its very best.

Janey Godley doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life affirming stand-up at its very best.

Since Janey's comedy career began, she's 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 'cancelled' 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's been through in life, maybe she's not "fine", and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate 'C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

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

Janey's experienced a life of extremes but has come out the other side with rare insight, still able to make light of all its trials and tribulations in her signature dark and uncompromising style.

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

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Janey Godley: The C Bomb: Series 2: 2. It Was Acceptable in the 70s

2. It Was Acceptable in the 70s

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Outrageous stories from the past and why Janey is driven to work till she literally drops.

Despite having a life-limiting disease, the work ethic forged out of childhood poverty and shame still has its grip on Janey, and the past lives on through her hilarious tales.

Trying her best to live in the present and working as hard as ever, Janey is compelled to share the strange, colourful, almost mythical world of her past. With stories of stealing coal, copper wires and playing on train tracks, and the poignant reason she’s taken up a challenging new hobby in the limited time she has left. 

Reflecting on the past with honesty, vulnerability and empathy for those who let her down, she continues to find humour and insight in both the darkness and the ridiculous. 

A mix of stories told onstage to a hometown audience, and candid conversations with her daughter Ashley Storrie, recorded in the living room of their home in Glasgow.

Produced by Julia Sutherland.
Featuring Ashley Storrie.

A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4

Janey Godley: The C Bomb: Series 2

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Living in limbo, cancer scan to scan, Janey's still utterly fearless and darkly hilarious.

As she lives in limbo between life and death, Janey shares her polemical take on living with terminal cancer, mining every moment for comedy gold with daughter Ashley by her side.

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