Dame Deborah Anne James DBE (1 October 1981 – 28 June 2022) was an English journalist, educator, podcast host and charity campaigner from London.

[1] In March 2018, she began presenting the You, Me and the Big C podcast for BBC Radio 5, alongside fellow cancer patients Lauren Mahon and Rachael Bland, the latter of whom died in September 2018.

[7][8] In June 2021, after undergoing multiple treatments,[9] James said her cancer was moving in "the wrong direction" and that the drugs she was relying on were no longer effective.

[10] In May 2022, James posted an update on her condition on social media, stating that she was receiving hospice-at-home care and that "her body just couldn't continue anymore".

[14][15][16][17] Two days later, James was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to charity and cancer awareness.