Made of Stronger Stuff: The Heart
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken take a journey around the human body, to find out what it can tell us about our innate capacity for change. In this episode, Kimberley and Xand focus on the heart, which has been branded the seat of emotion by generations of poets and songwriters.
They find out whether it’s medically possible to die from a broken heart, hear from a woman who lived for 16 months without a human heart, and Xand opens up about how Long Covid is affecting his heart.
Producer: Dan Hardoon Researcher: Emily Finch Executive Producer: Kate Holland A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello and welcome to Seriously, from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm Kimberly Wilson and you're about to hear an episode of my new podcast, |
| 0:47.9 | made of stronger stuff. |
| 0:50.4 | Our bodies reflect change in the world around us and along with my co-presenter Zand Van Telicon we ask one body part at a time |
| 0:58.5 | How much control do we have? On our tour of the human body we take a look into the eyes, |
| 1:04.9 | discover the incredible roles of the Vegas nerve and put serotonin under the spotlight. |
| 1:10.7 | But in this episode it's all about the heart. We learn about so-called |
| 1:15.0 | broken heart syndrome and hear the incredible story of a woman with an artificial heart. |
| 1:21.1 | To hear more episodes like this, just search for made of stronger stuff on BBC |
| 1:27.3 | sounds. Enjoy. |
| 1:29.7 | Hello and welcome to Maid of Stronger Stuff with me Kimberly Wilson and me |
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