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Surfer Tim Baker and doctor Peter Goldsworthy on living well with cancer
Big Ideas
54 minutes 34 seconds
3 weeks ago
Surfer Tim Baker and doctor Peter Goldsworthy on living well with cancer
Meet two men who will change the way you think about an experience most of us fear but will be touched by in some way. In Patting the Shark, surfing writer Dr Tim Baker describes his wild ride to reclaim a sense of control and agency after a cancer diagnosis. Celebrated author and GP Peter Goldsworthy’s memoir The Cancer Finishing School started out as a journal but became so much more.They join Natasha Mitchell for intimate an intimate, revelatory, funny, and generous conversation about the Big C and how medicine needs to change.
This event was hosted by the 2024 Queenscliffe Literary Festival
Original broadcast on January 22, 2025.
Speakers
Dr Tim Baker
Journalist, editor, patient advocate, and facilitator of the Peter Mac Book Group
Research Fellow, Prostate Cancer Research Group, Monash Biomedical Discovery Institute
Author, Patting the Shark: A surfer's journey — learning to live well with cancer (Ebury Australia/Penguin, 2022)
Dr Peter Goldsworthy
GP, author, librettist, poet
Author, The Cancer Finishing School —lessons in laughter, love, resilience (Penguin, 2024)
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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
