JENNI MURRAY: I've had 癌 so I know the one thing Charles should do (even if those around him say the opposite!)
It's hard to imagine a worse 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合 of bad luck. You're 75. You've just begun the 職業 you've been 約束d and trained for your entire life. You're working hard and keeping fit. You can finally 株 your good fortune with the woman you've loved for as long as you can remember then ― bang! ― 癌.
As King Charles said to a fellow 患者 at the Macmillan 癌 部隊 in London last week, it's 'a bit of a shock, isn't it, when they tell you'. It's an 平等に big shock when you realise that, as a result, those who know you best and 述べる you as a 'caged lion' when you're not working, 主張する you slow 負かす／撃墜する.
William, the son on whom Charles can rely, is said to be fretting about his 'workaholic' father overdoing things. Even Camilla has 認める she's been trying to 持つ／拘留する him 支援する.
King Charles wearing the 皇室の 明言する／公表する 栄冠を与える, waves from the Buckingham Palace balcony on May 6, 2023
I can tell them they'll get nowhere ― and rightly so. When I had 癌 in my 中央の 50s, I had no patience with my husband who tried to slow me 負かす／撃墜する or my two sons who were 納得させるd I'd die if I didn't 残り／休憩（する）. Something in my brain told me to keep going. I had a 職業 I loved. I wasn't going to 危険 losing my position at BBC Woman's Hour because I was considered too feeble to do it 井戸／弁護士席.
I 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う the King feels much the same. It's only a year since he and his wife put on such a splendid 業績／成果 at their 載冠（式）／即位（式）. They've worked hard to be seen and admired, 設立するing themselves as 君主s to be loved and 尊敬（する）・点d.
H e's not going to let 癌 make him seem weak and incompetent. He's not going to 行方不明になる all the things he has to do ― garden parties, 公式訪問s, 会合s with the 総理大臣 and Privy 会議.
Why would he want to 行方不明になる the excitement of the races at 王室の Ascot, which he is keen to …に出席する next month 'in honour of the Queen's memory'?
I had the same compulsion to keep going when my breast 癌 was 確認するd on the day my mother died. She would have been frantic with worry so I was 内密に relieved she never knew.
Grieving for his beloved wife, I don't think my father やめる took it in either. My mother's death occurred just before Christmas of 2006. It was impossible to arrange a funeral before the holiday season was over, so the New Year was 直す／買収する，八百長をするd for the ce remony.
My surgical oncologist could not have been more 同情的な. We arranged for my mastectomy to be carried out on ボクシング Day at Manchester's Christie Hospital, giving me a week to 回復する from major 外科, before 長，率いるing across the Pennines to my father in Barnsley.
My husband tried to 説得する me to give up on my 決意 to …に出席する my mother's funeral and 配達する the eulogy, but I was her only child; it was my 義務 to speak for her.
It wasn't 平易な, but the nurses 直す／買収する，八百長をするd me up with a bra with a special 挿入する so I wouldn't look lopsided. On the day, I was able to stand confidently in the church and do my 義務.
My family would have liked me to have returned home and taken time to 残り／休憩（する） and 回復する, but not long after I returned to work I spoke 率直に to the Woman's Hour audience about my 癌.
早期に morning starts. Lots of reading and 研究. Films and plays that had to be seen. I just got on with it. It took my mind off any worries about the 癌 spreading, perhaps lethally, to other parts of my 団体／死体. I did not 推定する／予想する chemotherapy to begin a month after 外科. I thought a 過激な mastectomy would have done the 職業, but my oncologist thought it would be an 保険 政策 against any spread.
I learned very quickly that chemotherapy is horrible. It feels unimaginably unnatural to have vile-smelling 毒（薬） pumped into your veins. It makes you sick. It makes you exhausted. It makes you want to curl up and do nothing. But, for me, that was not an 選択. I was the breadwinner in the family. I had to keep going. Looking 支援する, I'm relieved I did.
Curling up and doing nothing is not an 選択 for Charles either. On Tuesday it's understood he had 治療. Yesterday, he had 会合s in Buckingham Palace. Then there was the first garden party of the season with some 8,000 gu ests, all longing no 疑問 for an 遭遇（する） with their 君主. There was the 週刊誌 会合 with the 総理大臣, followed by the Privy 会議. Not much time for a 抱擁する with his son, Harry, in London for a 儀式 to celebrate his Invictus Games.
Today the King is at the 王室の School of 軍の 工学 in Surrey which will no 疑問 call once again on all his reserves of charm and energy.
I thought I was amazing going to work every day to 現在の Woman's Hour and having a bit of the afternoon to put my feet up and 残り／休憩（する）. The King is nearly 20 years older than I was then, and his 義務s are relentless. He's a year older than I am now and 率直に, the thought of his workload at this 行う／開催する／段階 of life would fill me with 恐れる.
He's a good man, doing a good 職業 and keeping his mind 解放する／自由な of 苦悩 about 癌.
He deserves all our support, best wishes and no pestering to slow 負かす／撃墜する. Busy is best.
What's wrong with jodhpurs, Beyonce??
The 42-year-old singer showed off her pert derriere as she modeled a 底（に届く）-明らかにするing, thong bodysuit with a pair of cheeky leather chaps
My morning ritual with Alan Bennett??
Today is Alan Bennett's 90th birthday, so best wishes to the nicest man in the world.
We were 隣人s in North London. We'd 会合，会う as I was on my way to work and he'd popped out to buy his paper. I asked him to be interviewed in 前線 of a 豊富な audience to raise money for Manchester's Christie 癌 Hospital. He said he'd have to ask his partner, Rupert.
He （機の）カム 支援する with a yes, but only if we didn't talk about 癌 from which we'd both 回復するd and he could get away by 8.30. He was a marvellous, witty interviewee. Later he told me why he had to get away. It was Rupert's birthday and Alan was cooking dinner.
I hope Rupert's cooking something wonderful for Alan tonight.
Alan Bennett at the London Evening 基準 British Film Awards at Television Centre on February 7, 2016
Why I'll never 運動 electric?
So many friends are crowing about their 生態学の 認識／意識性 and their electric cars. Then come the stories of 旅行s that go on for ever and 石油 駅／配置するs with chargers that don't work or have 列s of people waiting to plug in. I'm so pleased my little 小型の goes merrily on 石油.
No 列s at the unleaded pump. I'm sticking with it. Those who know, say the electric car 衝突，墜落 will 競争相手 the dot-com 泡. Sales are 落ちるing and I can't say I'm surprised.
No 列s at the unleaded pump. I'm sticking with it, says Jenni Murray
My boys longed for a スイスの Army knife. I said no ― too dangerous. Now there's a new スイスの Army no knife ― just 道具s. I 疑問 kids will pester their parents for that.
スイスの Army Knives, with their iconic red clasp and different 道具s, have become an 必須の piece of 道具 for campers, hikers and even 宇宙飛行士s in the past century
?Ah The Garrick Club! Welcome, guys, to the 21st Century where men and women are considered equal and enjoy the same 適切な時期s. But what was it Groucho Marx said? 'I 辞退する to join any club that would have me as a member.' So thanks gentlemen, but no thanks.
