Alison Booker
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Alison Chapman (formerly Booker; 23 June 1963 – 1 July 2010) was a presenter and newsreader at
She was born in
Alison had two children by her first husband, David Booker; Joanne and Douglas Booker. She made a life and a home in Wantage, Oxfordshire where the children attended the local schools and continue to live. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002. After a double mastectomy, radiation and chemotherapy she returned to her Afternoon Show on BBC Radio Oxford. She tackled it with her usual sense of humour, once joking to a doctor who needed to examine her that she didn't take her clothes off for anything less than a couple of really good meals and a bunch of flowers. Her breast cancer returned in February 2006, having metastasized to her lungs. She married her partner of five years, Andrew Chapman, in May 2006 after proposing to him on air on Children in Need day in 2005.
She retired from the BBC in January 2007. After a year at home, and bored with just waiting to die, she accidentally got freelance work at the then recently launched
Death
Alison Booker Chapman died on 1 July 2010, of breast cancer, aged 47, at Sobell House Hospice in Oxfordshire. On 24 September, her Cancer Diaries was awarded the Silver World Medal at The New York Festival Radio Awards in the Social Issues/Current Events Category.[4]
References
- ^ Xpression FM website Archived 17 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine, xpression.ex.ac.uk; accessed 17 July 2015.
- ^ BBC Radio Solent website, bbc.co.uk; accessed 17 July 2015.
- ^ 106 Jack FM website; accessed 17 July 2015.
- ^ BBC Obituary, bbc.co.uk; accessed 17 July 2015.