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Series: The Beautiful Brain
Episodes : 1-4
Author: Hana Walker-Brown
Category: Audiobook
Narrated by: Hana Walker-Brown
Duration: 03:47:17
Type: MP3
Size: 209.9 MB
Bitrate: Mixed
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This is a story about the beautiful game – football. The highs, the lows, historic
match days and foul play. It’s a celebration of a beloved player, a history maker, and
his tragic ending at the final whistle. It’s a story about science and discovery,
about the people on the frontline of life changing research. But above all it’s a
story about family, and about consequence.All of this is wrapped up in three little
letters, C.T.E.
A four-part investigative documentary from multi-award winning producer Hana Walker-
Brown, The Beautiful Brain looks at the devastating effects of Chronic Traumatic
Encephalopathy (CTE) – a degenerative brain disease found in people who’ve suffered
severe or repeated blows to the head.
Beginning with the story of FA Cup winner Jeff Astle, the podcast expands outwards
looking at the widows, daughters and families who are left fighting for answers
following the death of their loved ones. Hana’s investigation leads her from Britain’s
football pitches to support groups for victims of domestic violence and beyond,
sparking a vital discussion about accountability and the urgent need for further
scientific studies into CTE.
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Episode 1: A Glass Half Full
Duration: 00:51:32
Type: MP3
Size: 47.1 MB
Bitrate: 128 Kb/s
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Jeff Astle was a player that made history. But aside from the glorious chapters of his
life on the pitch, away from the floodlights, Jeff’s story is a tragic testament to
the effects of CTE.
How it was discovered and the events that followed are remarkable. It’s a story that
sent tremors throughout the Football Association, tremors that erupted across the
globe and continue to rock both the world and the Astle Family.
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Episode 2: An Inconvenient Truth
Duration: 01:24:31
Type: MP3
Size: 77.3 MB
Bitrate: 128 Kb/s
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Host Hana Walker-Brown meets Dr Bennett Omalu. A man so integral to the story of CTE,
that they made a movie about him with Will Smith in the starring role.
Doctor Omalu was the driving force behind the discovery of CTE amongst American NFL
players including Pittsburgh Steeler, Mike Webster. Doctor Omalu believed this
discovery would change everything; a truth that could save thousands of lives the
world over and change sport forever, but one that wouldn’t be well received by the
sporting bodies he was up against. Something the Astle family would also soon find
out.
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Episode 3: The Punch-Drunk Wife
Duration: 00:51:33
Type: MP3
Size: 47.2 MB
Bitrate: 128 Kb/s
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In comparison to men, the research on female brain injury is alarmingly low. The
common term associated with woman and concussion is TBI – Traumatic Brain Injury –
defined as “an alteration in brain function or other evidence of brain pathology caused
by an external force.“
An external force like a football, or a boxing glove, or a fist. In this episode,
Hana explores the story of one of the first cases of CTE ever reported in a woman.
Through her investigation, Hana meets the doctors and scientists dedicating their
lives to researching female traumatic brain injury, and hears devastating personal
testimony from survivors of intimate partner violence.
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Episode 4: Long Live the King
Duration: 00:39:41
Type: MP3
Size: 36.7 MB
Bitrate: 128 Kb/s
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In this last episode Hana returns to the Midlands for one final meeting with the
Astle family on the opening night of For The Love Of The Game, a play written by Mike
Howl about Jeff’s life and death. She visits the Hawthorns – West Bromwich Albion’s
football ground – to meet the Albion Memories Dementia Group, an organisation which
provides space for partners and caregivers to chat with players of the past, share old
photographs and trophies, and discuss their shared loved of the game to evoke memories
that have been lost.
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