BBC presenter Steve Hewlett, 58, who 株d his 癌 戦う/戦い with 無線で通信する 4 listeners dies surrounded by family as (頭が)ひょいと動く Dylan plays in the background

  • 58-year-old died in the company of family at London's 王室の Marsden Hospital
  • News was 確認するd by 無線で通信する 4's Eddie Mair during his evening programme
  • The 無線で通信する 4 host ended 治療 after 癌 of the oesophagus had spread
  • Married his partner in hospital this month after 存在 told he had weeks to live

Steve Hewlett, 58, died in the company of his family at London's Royal Marsden Hospital

Steve Hewlett, 58, died in the company of his family at London's 王室の Marsden Hospital

He fought a very public 戦う/戦い with 癌, moving the country on 空気/公表する with his wit and bravery.

BBC 無線で通信する 4 host Steve Hewlett helped 向こうずね a light on what it’s like to live with the 病気.?

And yesterday listeners were 荒廃させるd to learn he had died, surrounded by family as (頭が)ひょいと動く Dylan played in the background.?

Mr Hewlett, 58, 株d his 失望/欲求不満s and 恐れるs with millions in a 一連の frank and raw interviews.?

The presenter, who was 診断するd with of the oesophagus last March, married the ‘love of his life’ Rachel Crellin いっそう少なく than a month ago, after 存在 told he had only weeks to live.

He had hosted 無線で通信する 4’s The マスコミ Show for nearly a 10年間, but he 設立する a wider audience with his discussions about 癌 with PM presenter Eddie Mair.?

The interviews 診察するd 問題/発行するs such as 麻薬 裁判,公判s and his reaction to 治療.

Yesterday, 癌 charities 賞賛するd the 新聞記者/雑誌記者 for his bravery in 株ing his story.

Tragic: The broadcaster, 58, was told by his consultant that they would have to halt treatment after the cancer spread to his liver

悲劇の: The 放送者, 58, was told by his 顧問 that they would have to 停止(させる) 治療 after the 癌 spread to his 肝臓

Surrounded by his partner Rachel (pictured) and his three children, the presenter got married in his hospital bedroom earlier this month

Surrounded by his partner Rachel (pictured) and his three children, the presenter got married in his hospital bedroom earlier this month

HIS WIT AND WISDOM

ON HIS LAST MINUTE WEDDING IN HOSPITAL

‘So my kids are all there, the person who is going to be my wife is there, the person who has been the closest thing I’ve had to a wife is there [his ex-partner].

‘The whole thing is organised within an hour, just in 事例/患者. The staff amazingly produced a cake. The nurses produced flowers. A couple of 瓶/封じ込めるs of Prosecco appeared from goodness knows where, and then this 儀式 begins, like something from The Vicar of Dibley.

‘The idea that Britain doesn’t have people who really care about others is nonsense. In this little room here, this was Britain at its best.’

on 存在 受託するd on a 麻薬s 裁判,公判

‘As soon as I put the phone 負かす/撃墜する, all I could do was cry. I was so 圧倒するd by it.’

... HIS FINAL INTERVIEW

He said ‘living each day as if it is your last’ to him meant ‘存在 able to relax, to watch the TV, to spend time with friends’.

He also said he planned to celebrate Valentine’s by getting real wedding (犯罪の)一味s as in hospital he and Rachel Crellin had used old ones. When Eddie Mair chided him for sending his new wife to ‘直す/買収する,八百長をする it’, he laughed: ‘Come on, there aren’t many upsides to this.’?

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John Newlands, 上級の 癌 nurse at Macmillan 癌 Support said: ‘We hope that by 向こうずねing a light on what it’s like to live with 癌, Steve has encouraged more people ? and 特に men ? to see a doctor 早期に if they have worrying symptoms and to feel more 確信して when telling family and friends that they have 癌.’

Nick Robinson, the Today presenter ? who has himself had 肺 癌 ? 株d a poem he wrote after visiting Mr Hewlett a ‘few days ago’, realising that he would ‘almost certainly never see him again’.?

It began with the lines: ‘You chose to 直面する your sickness, your 苦痛, your 恐れる in public / Your 決定/判定勝ち(する) made thousands realise they were not alone.’?

The father-of-three pictured in 2015 before his diagnosis celebrating his son's Bertie's 18th birthday

The father-of-three pictured in 2015 before his diagnosis celebrating his son's Bertie's 18th birthday

The journalist - who has worked in print and was editor of Panorama - said his experience of the healthcare system had been 'Britain at its best'

The 新聞記者/雑誌記者 - who has worked in print and was editor of Panorama - said his experience of the healthcare system had been 'Britain at its best'

癌 of the oesophagus is the eighth most ありふれた 癌, and one of the most 積極的な. より小数の than 15 per cent of people who are 診断するd with the 病気 生き残る after five years.

Mr Hewlett had three grown-up sons with his former partner Karole Lange. It was she who 示唆するd he marry 行方不明になる Crellin, an (n)役員/(a)執行力のある at a TV 生産/産物 company. Their wedding took place on his 区 at the 王室の Marsden Hospital in London.

The presenter ? who was 可決する・採択するd as a baby ? has said 以前 that telling his sons he was 苦しむing from 癌 was the hardest thing he ever had to do in his life.

But にもかかわらず the emotional ordeal of the 病気, Mr Hewlett was working until the end. He was still hosting the マスコミ Show last month.

Mr Hewlett knew the マスコミ 貿易(する) inside and out. Having begun as a 研究員 for BBC’s 全国的な, he 規模d the 階級s to become editor of Panorama. In 1995 he oversaw its 爆発性の interview with Princes Diana. He went on to become director of programmes at Carlton TV before later returning to journalism.

WARM TRIBUTES PAID TO AN 'EXCEPTIONAL JOURNALIST'

Lord Hall, the BBC's Director-General described Steve Hewlett (pictured) as an 'exceptional journalist'

Lord Hall, the BBC's Director-General 述べるd Steve Hewlett (pictured) as an 'exceptional 新聞記者/雑誌記者'

に引き続いて the news Steve Hewlett had passed away, 新聞記者/雑誌記者s, celebrities and fans 決起大会/結集させるd to 支払う/賃金 尊敬の印 to the much-loved presenter.?

Lord Hall, the BBC's Director-General, 述べるd Hewlett as an 'exceptional 新聞記者/雑誌記者'.

He said: 'His 分析 of the マスコミ 産業 was always 必須の listening. Steve was a trus ted 発言する/表明する that 具体的に表現するd everything 肯定的な in public service journalism. He was hugely popular not just with テレビ視聴者s and listeners, but with BBC staff.

'When I saw him last week, I told him how much I have admired his 勇敢に立ち向かう interviews with Eddie Mair about his 治療 which he did with a candour and sense of 調査 that was typically Steve.

'Our thoughts are with his family and many friends.'

無線で通信する 4 監査役 Gwyneth Williams said that he 'will be much 行方不明になるd as an 優れた 新聞記者/雑誌記者'.

She 追加するd: 'He was 合理的な/理性的な and 知らせるd, hard-nosed and witty, never taking himself too 本気で but unpicking the stories he covered with 広大な/多数の/重要な 真面目さ.

'We will certainly 行方不明になる his 週刊誌 presence on 無線で通信する 4, and I will 行方不明になる him 本人自身で as a 長年の 同僚 from the days when we worked together in News. We send our deepest sympathy to his family.'?

Steve Hewlett was 'the best editor (of Panorama)..arguably in the history of the programme' said his former boss 示す Damazer.

BBC presenter Nick Robinson wrote a 尊敬の印 for his friend, and 株d it on his Facebook page, 追加するing: 'Sad news.?My friend, my 同僚 and a 広大な/多数の/重要な 放送者 Steve Hewlett has died.

'I visited him in hospital a few days ago and wrote this knowing that I would almost certainly never see him again.?His family said it brought him and them some 慰安 so I'm 株ing it in the hope it may help others - old friends and the many new ones who never met him but felt they knew him.'

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