S4 E21: Concussion - Rugby could be 'gradually removed from mainstream culture'
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🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Gareth Rhys Owen speaks to former Dragons wing Adam Hughes about suing rugby's governing bodies for negligence and Dr Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who discovered the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and rocked American football with his research into the brain injuries sustained by players in the National Football League (NFL).
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| 0:00.0 | Boxer turned bouncer Viv Graham was one of the northeast most notorious hard men. |
| 0:06.5 | It was huge, you were strong, we could take anybody out. |
| 0:09.0 | Not many men on earth could match Viv Graham. |
| 0:11.6 | But his life of violence led to his downfall. |
| 0:15.0 | Why did it happen? |
| 0:16.0 | Why did they do that? |
| 0:17.3 | How did Viv Graham build an empire? |
| 0:19.8 | It was the power, the presence, the aura. And who was he, really? |
| 0:24.4 | Gangster, the story of Viv Graham. |
| 0:27.4 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.4 | You're listening to BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the Scram Fine Podcast. I'm Garathrice Owen. |
| 0:37.6 | Now, concussion in rugby has been in the news more than ever in recent weeks. |
| 0:42.1 | It's been revealed that a group of former players are sewing |
| 0:45.0 | rugby's governing bodies they claim the game gave them CTE, chronic traumatic |
| 0:50.6 | encephalopathy, basically brain damage. |
| 0:54.3 | And yesterday, lawyers representing the group of former players, including former Wales number |
| 0:58.7 | eight, Alex Popper, man former dragon's wing, Adam Hughes, officially notified a number of governing |
| 1:04.8 | bodies of their intention to sue for negligence. In this podcast you're going to |
| 1:09.5 | hear from one of those players involved in the case,'s Adam Hughes he'll talk about his |
| 1:13.1 | experiences but you're also gonna hear from Dr Bennett O'Malley the neuropathologist |
| 1:19.2 | who was first to discover CTE in the brain of an NFL player. Now you might remember him from the film |
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