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Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart

Richard Tyrone Jones

Michael Riccardi

Nigel Barrett

Katie Bonna

Lobo Chan

Olivia Winteringham

Nyasha Hatendi

Sarah Belcher

Nina Ludovica Smith

Nick Walker

Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart: Episode 2: Of Coke Dealers and Cardioverters

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Episode 2: Of Coke Dealers and Cardioverters

Of Coke Dealers and Cardioverters

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Will Richard die, or worse, be doomed to life in a mobility scooter at his parents' home?

Poet Richard Tyrone Jones gets heart failure on his 30th birthday. With the help of his agent and his 'anti-girlfriend' he learns to live, love and overdo it at a nightclub.

Series Title: Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart
Programme/episode title: Of Coke Dealers and Cardioverters



Richard Tyrone Jones, healthy, gym-going poet, man about town and aspirant womaniser, finds himself, on his thirtieth birthday, stricken by an unexpected present: heart failure. Confined to hospital with a a dilated, literally-big heart, surrounded by old men, stuck on drugs and drips and forced to cope with curious medical procedures and even curiouser fellow patients, will he die, or worse, be doomed to life in a mobility scooter at home with his parents in Dudley?

Based on Richard's Wellcome Trust supported solo show each episode illuminates a different aspect of the experience of illness and facing your own mortality. Half-way between a sitcom and real-life storytelling, Richard will explain some of his illness's progression through direct address and his own poems. 

Richard Tyrone Jones is a poet and writer and director of spoken word at the Edinburgh Festival Free Fringe.

It was written by Richard Tyrone Jones
With additional material by Michael Mixy Riccardi

Studio engineer and editor - Matt Katz

Produced by Nick Walker
A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4.

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Jones illuminates the experience of facing a life-threatening medical condition

In a mix of sitcom and real-life storytelling, Jones illuminates the experience of facing a life-threatening medical condition

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