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Matthew Biggs: BBC Gardeners’ Question Time panellist admits ‘I don’t know how long I’ve got to live’ in last appearance on show

The Independent·Catherine Wylie·21 days ago
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Matthew Biggs, a long-standing panellist on BBC Radio 4 ’s Gardeners’ Question Time , has made his final appearance, revealing that he does not know how much longer he has left to live. The gardening expert, a fixture on the show since 1994, has been living with cancer since 2020 and is now receiving palliative care. He spoke about the toll his terminal illness has taken on his mental and physical wellbeing, and the struggle to let go of gardening. “I’m trying to get on with everything, and enjoy Gardeners’ Question Time while I can because I will lose my faculties,” he said. “I hate the thought of not being able to speak, to smile, to communicate. “I was born with cerebral palsy, so I’ve always been knocked down and had to get up. I’ve always had this thing that every cloud has a silver lining, and if there isn’t one then you make one. “I don’t know how long I’ve got to live,” he said during the programme.…

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