Podcast: How to handle heart disease – with Samer Nashef

Cardiac surgeon Samer Nashef discusses his book, ‘The Angina Monologues: Stories of Surgery for Broken Hearts’, with journalist Sathnam Sanghera.

Listen time: 50:14
A model of a heart on a metal stand. In the background, out of focus, are many other heart models in the distance.
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Do Diet Coke and salt cause heart disease? How do you transport a heart to be transplanted? How can you learn to live with angina? In this month's talk, we hear from world-renowned cardiac surgeon Samer Nashef who discusses his book, ‘The Angina Monologues: Stories of Surgery for Broken Hearts’, with journalist Sathnam Sanghera.

Together they explore a collection of Samer’s stories that are sure to get your heart racing – from driving a donor heart up the motorway to Samer's personal experience with angina.

This talk was recorded from our theatre at the Royal Institution on 8 May 2019.