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Dying for a transplant

Following heart failure whilst on-stage, comedian Emmanuel Sonubi explores attitudes to organ donation and transplantation around the world.

In 2019 British-Nigerian comedian Emmanuel Sonubi suffered heart failure whilst on-stage during his set at a comedy club in Dubai, and when he returned to the UK was told that he might need a heart transplant but there's a severe shortage of donors for people from his background. In Dying for a Transplant, Emmanuel explores the varying attitudes to organ donation and transplantation around the world and asks what different nations and cultures can learn from each other.

Producer: Kurt Brooks
A Made in Manchester production for BBC World Service

(Photo: Comedian Emmanuel Sonubi. Credit: )

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