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Eclipse
Lauren Marks is mid-karaoke... then wakes up in hospital with only a 40-word vocabulary.
It's August 2007. Lauren Marks is a 27-year-old actor and a PhD student, spending the month directing a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She's in a bar, standing onstage, performing a karaoke duet of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'... and then a blood vessel in her brain bursts. When she wakes up in hospital, days later, she has no internal monologue, and a vocabulary of only forty words.
Lauren Marks has written a book about her aphasia experiences, A Stitch Of Time, out now.
This episode was produced by Helen, and the original score is by Martin Austwick.
'Total Eclipse of the Heart' is sung by Bonnie Tyler, written and produced by Jim Steinman.
