Dr. Matt Morgan tends to meet people on the worst day of their lives. As a Consultant in intensive care medicine, he tries to bring people back from the brink between life and death to live another day. What happens in this transitional period? What do these people see, sense, remember? What can those who’ve experienced this teach us? Dr. Matt thinks these are the people we should be listening to, not tech billionaires or business gurus.  

In this episode, you’ll hear how new technology enables a donated heart to continue to beat its intrinsic rhythm in a plastic box while waiting to be transferred to its new body; how one man’s heart stopped beating for nine hours after being buried in a snowstorm, and then started to beat again; and what someone remembers after being struck by lightning, a hair’s breadth from death. 

Dr Matt has written a book called ‘ A Second Act: What Nearly Dying Teaches Us About Really Living.'

Producer and Presenter: Katy Davis

Music: Sophie Parkes 

Engineering and Mix: Gaëtan Harris 

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