07/01/2013 Inside Out London

This is the front and this wide area is the brain tumour. A lot of

patients talk about a ticking timebomb and they know what they

have a tumour that is not cancer but it can change and that is very

difficult psychologically for some patients.

Are you prepared for the surgery and you have the support?

By things have been quite good. will travel to London for co-

operation, and a week craniotomy, that means they will remove part of

the tumour at I she is awake. hoped that the time for it to

become malignant will be reduced so it will increase her survival time

and prognosis. It feels it will now I have sat down and talked about it

and I have seen the jumar on screen, it seems real. -- tumour. A bit

breathless at the minute. It is the date of the operation and she will

be in theatre for over three hours, conscious the whole time. The if I

could, I would run away, but I have no choice about this. This is an

exploratory operation to see how much of the tumour I can remove.

am incredibly anxious and very fearful for my family who are

waiting because I know what they will be going to. -- going through.

The first part of the operation involves removing the top of her

skull. Normally, patients would be anaesthetised for this, but in

Debbie's case, they want to keep her awake. There could be

difficulty controlling her airways so although it will be difficult

for her, we will have her awake throughout. It that it? That is it.

All the groundwork is done. I do not like doing it. As a doctor,

and you do not like doing unpleasant things to people, but it

does not heard. Or you all right? I am all right.

Once they can see the brain, they stimulate different areas, to

identify how much is tumour and how much is healthy tissue.

I am going to start with what might be the sensory part for your left

leg inside your body. Do you feel any funny feelings? Yes, in my

foot! Right at the bottom. This may produce movement. In my left arm,

it moved. That is motor, that is sensory. That was a hand twitching.

Consistently? Yes. I am going to stop removing some of this tumour

and by checking her movement, hopefully I will not stray into the

motor area. A open your eyes, big smile, stick

your tongue out, perfect. Squeeze your hand, Paul Reid towards you,

in the air, down again -- pull your hand. Turn it round. The operation

has been on for over an hour. is extraordinary is that Debbie is

a break and can help them if I she tells them which part of her body

feel funny as they remove part of the tumour. That is the cheek and

that is the on and that his hands, so it is spread out widely stop

mind --. -- arm. But it quickly becomes apparent that removing even

small amounts of the tumour is making it difficult for Debbie to

move her left leg. Is the work we go? He definitely

weaker than it was before the operation. -- is the lake and

weaker at. -- leg. But things don't improve and the surgeon decides to

call it a day. I had to stop because I made it weaker, but if

that gets better quickly, which it probably will, there is the option

of another operation and in later date. You are fighting a battle in

a losing war or to many but it might be worth considering.

ultimately. In the end, they only manage to remove about 10% of the

tumour, which is much less than was originally hoped.

Three weeks later, and Debbie is back at home recovering from her

surgery, and she is upbeat about how the operation went.

It is better having some of Robert found that none of it out so for me

it was a success. -- some of it. And I found an inner strength to

cope with something I thought I would not be able to cope with.

Debbie is one of thousands of people living in the UK with a

brain tumour, but she believes there needs to be more research and

a greater awareness, which is why she invited the cameras in.

I wanted people to be a part of my journey, a part of what I am

experiencing, to try to understand that there are so many of us who

are the silent ones. Debbie may face more operations in the future,

but for now, she must watch and When it comes to that for's most

famous son, David Hockney probably takes the title -- Bradford's most

famous art. But he does have a rival. Delius was born 150 years

ago in Bradford. We have been looking back at a life of one of

The work of the composer Delius. It is a story which put Bradford at

the centre of world music. A rebel who rejected his parents' religion

and swapped his family business for the love of his life. Music.

The classical composer Frederic Delius was the ultimate non-

conformist. He has always been in the category to himself. Of Taik-

Lee single man do it -- single- minded, egotistical about what you

wanted to achieve -- and the means by which she wanted to achieve that.

-- he wanted. It is 150 years since Delius was born just a stones'

throw away from this bustling city centre. But his contribution, both

home and abroad, still resonates across cultures around the world.

And today, one of those whose music he inspired, world-reknowned

violininst Tasmin Little, whose father is from Bradford, has

returned to the city to learn a bit more about her hero.

First stop, the German church where a young Delius soaked up his first

musical influences, while worshiping with his family.

It is wonderful to be here, it really is, and to think of him

being here as a young boy sitting board in the congregation. He ended

up as a complete atheist! family were part of a wave of

German immigrants who came to establish a strong identity within

the city's wool trade. Their growing wealth evidenced in their

own stained glass window here. They're off from a German family

and music and church -- may off from. Quite the puritanical family

and the family have made up their minds to go into the will and Trade

and it turned out very differently! -- of the war when decade.

-- woolen trade. What makes it special is the use of harmony, it

is very lyrical and singing. He loved nature and he loved walking

on the moors, and as a young boy, he wanted to run away from home. He

tried to run away with his younger brother until they took with them

was a bag of sweets! They were found along the moors with an empty

bag of sweets and sent off home. He was always eager to immerse himself

in nature. While nature may have been his first Love, he had to

fight to find it. According to local historian Irene Lofthouse,

when Delius was set to work at his father's warehouse in the thick of

Bradford's grimy wool industry, he was like a fish out of water.

Imagine all these males full of working looms and people and clogs

-- cotton mills. It would have been really noisy. It would also have

been filled the. -- a filthy. All this grubbiness wasn't for Delius.

He had his own ideas. Instead of picking up the family business, he

threw himself into music, travelling around the world for

inspiration. And as Tasmin and I are about find

out, his rich musical legacy is being used in a variety of creative

A few miles from the family's warehouse is the Delius Special

School, where music is a key part of the curriculum, in an

environment where children have a variety of profound learning

disabilities. Here, music is a vital means of

communication, and Tasmin is keen to share her passion.

So on times, in springtime, there is a thunderstorm and the thunder

goes like this -- sometimes. And the like mink goes like this.

Delius himself, Tasmin is keen to break down musical barriers, an

attitude which is at the heart of this school's work. We have got

children who are autistic and they have difficulty expressing their

emotions in a normal situation. But give them music and talk to them

about emotion through music and they can be as expressive and

interested in opening Gupta people as anybody else, so it is quite

wonderful -- opening up to people. Delius wanted his work to connect

with the soul, and the curriculum here would be music to his ears.

As Delius grew up, he moved away from Bradford, but continued to

rebel against authority. His tastes became ever more bohemian, reaching

a peak while mixing with the impressionists and philosophers in

Paris. He loved good wine, he loved a cigar, he loved beautiful women,

and ultimately people -- he paid the price for this in his later

life. After Delius's years of debauchery in France, he went blind

and needed constant care. His life was turned into a BBC film by the

legendary director Ken Russell. knew Scarborough when I was a boy,

when we used to live in Bradford, a filthy place! By this time, he had

already travelled to America, Scandinavia and Germany, fusing the

musical traditions of everywhere he went into his own distinctive style.

And want you to imagine we are sitting on the cliffs looking out

onto the sea -- I want you. Delius was a maverick throughout his life.

But the multi-cultural influences of his music was too much for some.

The British public wanted patriotism and, just as Delius was

reaching his peak, his style was overshadowed by a piece of music

that gave them what they were Algar was regarded as the bright

new hope for British music. Elgar. My know get the raced out of

the British musical history as a result -- Delius gets taking out.

Mack Subsequently, it was Elgar, and not Delius, who came to define

his musical generation. represents the diverse community

Bradford is today, diverse constituents. National boundaries

were not important to Delius. Delius may simply have been ahead

of his time. As part of Tasmin's visit, she is performing a gala

concert in the city's cathedral. Before she leaves, there is just

time to squeeze in a visit to the place where this musical journey

all began, Delius's birth place in Claremont Road, now the base for an

international relief organisation, and a chance for us to reflect on

his career. He was an outsider in the very next

Bradford at the time. -- a mixed. That is right, and although he was

an outsider and must have felt the clash between being in Bradford but

having the strong German roots, that almost turned into the story

of his success the curse he resisted the path that was set out

for him and in resisting it, he made it very clear his own

individual path. And that is a path which the people of Bradford at

least are happy to follow, as tonight, a sell-out crowd enjoys

Delius's music being played in the city which has continued to cherish

During the different things we have done today, it has definitely

brought me closer to the early part of his life, to see the place he

would have gone to to do his day's work. Far removed from Delius the

musician, so it has brought the man That is it for tonight, and if you

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