The Art and Science of our Beating Hearts

Your heart will beat between 2.5 and 3 billion times over the course of our life, and many of us will become ill, and potentially die, from heart disease. Our hearts are not only critical to each of us but have also played a key role in cultures across the globe for centuries.

Tim and Syma talk to Robin Choudhury, a scientist trying to understand heart disease, a clinician who treats people with heart disease, and an author who has woven together our scientific, cultural and artistic understanding of the heart in a fabulous new book “The Beating Heart: The Art and Science of our Most Vital Organ”