00:04Anyone who's played music from childhood will feel the fact that you can still do it and
00:09the fact that it's still part of your life, decades on, is amazing.
00:14Who's my son Roy?
00:15Hello.
00:16That's Liz.
00:16I'm Richard Dean.
00:18You know, when I play, there's eight-year-old me with a recorder.
00:21You know, there's 15-year-old me getting my first saxophone.
00:24They're all still there, playing away now.
00:27And there's still this guy trying to go, oh wow, how do you do that?
00:34Well, hello.
00:36I think the normal thing for people of our maturity, when we get together, we usually start with
00:43a little health update, don't we?
00:47Last year I had esophageal cancer.
00:50It was a pretty heavy diagnosis and the original proposed treatment was we chop it out.
00:57Oh, the tumour?
00:58Nope.
00:59The esophagus.
01:00We're going to take the whole thing out and chuck it away.
01:03It was terrifying when he got the diagnosis.
01:07I thought, well, if they're going to snip out his esophagus and stitch him up, what does
01:13that mean for his playing?
01:15And I thought that would be a heartbreak for him.
01:20But then, as is my want, I tended to talk about it.
01:25And so I went on air.
01:26I spoke about it.
01:27Well, this is a bit of a strange moment for me and probably for you.
01:32I've got to go off and deal with something.
01:34And the thing I've got to go off and deal with is cancer.
01:37It never occurred to us, as I think it wouldn't occur to many people, to think there's an
01:43alternative treatment.
01:44I had to tell you and I wanted to, you know, tell you all.
01:47When he got the option to not do it or to try something else, he was pretty ecstatic and
01:53pretty like, let's go.
01:58Being able to play again when it looked like this was the thing that was most likely to
02:03be completely taken away.
02:09It's an unbelievable joy.
02:10.
02:12.
02:12Oh, oh, oh, oh.
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