My Name Is Kabir

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Kabir Hussein, a young man who suffered from a rare blood disorder during his formative years, wants to see what can be done to relieve trauma for children suffering from illnesses. Conventionally, cancer patients and survivors are often associated with death and despair. Kabir is committed to a positive outlook on his own experiences, and he often feels like an anomaly. From literature to film depicting their stories as tragic, Kabir wants to change the discourse and explore the different ways in which children’s mental health can be prioritised alongside their physical health. Now, fully recovered and in his early 20s, he takes a retrospective look on his illness, discovers how treatments for his condition are evolving, revisits the key figures who defined his own experience and explores the work the NHS is doing to provide genuinely rounded care for seriously ill children. Producer: Dahaba Ali Executive Producer: Robert Nicholson A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4