How Can We Mend A Broken Heart?
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Greg and Bella return for 2022 with a special lesson from primary school teacher Miss Osueke all about the heart.
Award-winning Miss Osueke will take us on a guided tour of the cardiovascular system, and challenge Greg and Bella to come up with new ways of remembering parts of the heart.
Join Greg and Bella in the task to find your resting heart rate and the 'in-lesson' exercise to increase it. Learn about the surprisingly valuable contents of our blood, including a precious metal which can be found in your mobile phone!
We'll also find out about the ways in which emotional heartbreak can have real medical implications, as Greg and Bella share their stories of young heartbreak.
Hear about the work of early heart surgery pioneer, Daniel Hale Williams, plus Miss Osueke's shock lupus diagnosis and the open heart surgery that saved her life.
Bad students of all ages are welcome. Expect brilliant teachers, captivating subjects but absolutely no homework.
Get in touch with your stories - email us at teachme@bbc.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, |
| 0:07.8 | how can we mend a broken heart? |
| 0:11.1 | Every time you do that intro, do jazz hands do you know that? |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah that's because I'm excited. I know I'm just saying. |
| 0:17.0 | We're back it It's after Christmas and it's the first Teach Me a Lesson of |
| 0:27.0 | 2022. I'm Bela Mackie and I'm an excited Greg James. And this is Teach Me a Lesson, the podcast where we invite |
| 0:33.4 | brilliant teachers from across the UK to teach us their favorite lesson. Hey, what a |
| 0:38.4 | what a great Christmas break we had. We had Ed Sheeron, then a mic drop, and then this little podcast appeared in loads of those end of the year lists. |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah, I thought you were going to say we just had a really great break, which we did, but yeah, you're also talking about the fact that we did come up in all the sort of top |
| 0:53.7 | podcast of the year list. |
| 0:55.1 | So we say all. |
| 0:56.1 | I saw one. |
| 0:57.1 | I was it too. |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah, too. |
| 0:59.1 | Oh that's nice. |
| 1:00.1 | Well, welcome back to another, it's not another series, but we just had an extended break, and here we are with the final few lessons of term two. |
| 1:09.0 | This is our second science lesson of this term, but it's our first lesson from a |
| 1:14.0 | primary school teacher I'm really excited about this because it's the first |
| 1:16.9 | teacher you meet I know I remember my first teacher she was amazing names come on |
| 1:21.6 | can't remember her name okay well I can remember all my |
| 1:23.6 | favorite primary school teachers I remember Mrs W W W W N K didn't find it funny at the time |
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