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The fascinating tale of a heart that died twice: best podcasts of the week
Source: The Guardian · Published

How did two men who shared the same heart and the same wife end up dying the same way? Plus, inside the beef between ‘the Kennedys of Italy’ This fascinating series opens with the death of a man from a gunshot wound – and the revelation that this isn’t the first time his heart has stopped beating. It previously belonged to another man who died the same way, and who also had the same wife. Hosted…
Key points
- How did two men who shared the same heart and the same wife end up dying the same way?
- Plus, inside the beef between ‘the Kennedys of Italy’ This fascinating series opens with the death of a man from a gunshot wound – and the revelation that this isn’t the first time his heart has stopped beating.
- It previously belonged to another man who died the same way, and who also had the same wife.
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