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The Word

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First episode dateAugust 10, 1990
Final episode dateMarch 24, 1995
Networks Channel 4
Production location(s)Limehouse Studios
Teddington Studios
Number of episodes 104
Presented by Terry Christian
Mark Lamarr
Dani Behr
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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About The Word


The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom. which took its name from the regular column covering up and coming Manchester bands in the Manchester Evening News written by Terry Christian.

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...By Lucy WatkinsonBBC NewsWhen five-year-old Cali said The Word " spider" her mother, Cara, had tears in her eyes...

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George Alagiah reveals his cancer has spread

Nov 17,2023 8:51 pm

George Alagiah has revealed that his colon cancer has spread to his lungs.

The 64-year-old BBC newsreader and journalist of the newspaper, he got the message from the doctors in April, but only said that his editor.

However, he added that his condition was not in a "chronic" or "terminal" stage.

Alagiah was the first diagnosis for colorectal cancer in the year 2014, and announced in the year 2017, that the disease returned. It has now spread to his lungs, liver and lymph nodes, He Said .

'I don't want to worry'

"My doctors have never The Word 'chronic' or 'cure' my cancer," He Said .

"have you never used The Word 'terminal' either. I've always said that my oncologist, "you Tell me, if I need to sort out my Affairs", and he did not tell me, but what will he say to me that the cancer is now in the third of the organ. It is in my lungs. "

He added: "I said To My doctor, 'you are going to have to do the worrying for me. "I don't want to fill my mind with worry. I know only that he is a smart guy, doing everything he can. "

As a result of the cancer spreading, Alagiah, said his chemotherapy has increased.

at the end of March, the revealed by BBC newsreader, he had also been entrusted with a mild case of coronavirus, but felt that dealing with cancer-had helped to get through it.

"In some ways, I think that those of us who are living with cancer more, because we somehow "know" what it is like, Into Something where the results are uncertain," He Said to Bbc News colleague Sophie Raworth , at The Time .

in the Last month his debut novel, The Burning Land, about corruption and murder in South Africa , was shortlisted for A Society of authors award.

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