About Hip Hop
Hip Hop was the mascot of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team. A rabbit character, Hip Hop usually entertained Sixers fans during halftime and time-outs by performing acrobatic slam dunks from a trampoline, often over an item or person, such as a motorcycle, a Sixer Dancer, a fan, or a ladder.
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Dame Deborah James' on-air goodbye named radio moment of the year at Aria Awards
By Paul GlynnEntertainment reporter
The final on-air conversation between Dame Deborah James and BBC presenter Tony Livesey has been voted moment of the year in the UK radio industry's annual awards.
The You, Me and the Big C podcaster, who also Set Up the Bowelbabe cancer research fund, aged 40.
She made a touching last appearance alongside Livesey on BBC Radio 5 Live last May, shortly before her death.
It was named the Radio Times Moment of the Year at the Aria Awards on Tuesday.
In The Interview , Livesey was heard refusing to Say Goodbye , while thanking Dame Deborah and offering " a big warm hug".
Livesey told the Radio Times last month that ending The Call was one of the hardest things he has ever had to do.
" I couldn't put The Phone down as I knew it would be The Last Time I would speak to her, " He Said . " We were like young kids on a Date - 'you put it down', 'no you put it down. '
" In The End she put The Phone down. And that was The Last Time I ever spoke to her. "
Dame Deborah launched the podcast with fellow cancer patients Lauren Mahon and Rachael Bland to explore life with and myths about the disease. It won the Arias' impact award on Tuesday.
Another of The Winners also focused on death and loss. US comedian Rob Delaney 's A Heart That Works, a memoir about his young son Henry who died of a brain tumour, took the award for best audiobook or reading.
Other winners included comedian Romesh Ranganathan - for his BBC podcast For the Love of Hip Hop - as well as BBC radio DJs Craig Charles and Tony Blackburn .
Blackburn received the pioneed award shortly before being discharged from London's Wellington hospital, where he had been for three weeks with an infection.
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