At a time when resurgent racism infests the public debate, ‘mistakes’ like the broadcaster’s can’t be excused
When the doctor sat Danny Baker down to break the news of his cancer, the broadcaster’s first instinct was to defuse things with a joke. Realising how much the doctor was dreading it, he writes in his autobiography that he deliberately “derailed the moment”. It may not have been that funny, but it was kindly meant. There is much black humour on cancer wards, as there is anywhere people deal routinely with things nobody wants to think too hard about.
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