Comedy panto legend on saving a life: 'Maybe she went on to have a family'
John Linehan has been entertaining generations for decades under the guise of his alter ego May McFettridge.
Across almost four decades on radio, TV and stage, his career has been a rich and rewarding one - but there is one moment, he told The State of Us podcast, that stands above all others.
Above he tells hosts Tara Mills and Declan Harvey of the moment a young woman told him something he said on the radio stopped her from taking her own life - and how that's something that has stayed with him his whole career.
Read more here and listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds.
