When BBC radio presenter Nick Clarke was diagnosed with cancer in December 2005, he was told that major surgery was the only way to save his life: his left leg would have to be amputated and he had two weeks to prepare.
For Barbara, Nick's wife and mother of their three year old twin boys, the news thrust her into roles she'd never anticipated.
With the operation, and Christmas, only days away Nick and Barbara began a taped record of the unpredictable path their lives were to take over the next six months.
