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Weird, wonderful, shocking, brave. Nicky Campbell explores what it means to be different.

What does it mean to be different? Is it how we think? Or how we act? In this BBC podcast, Nicky Campbell explores just that with guests who are extraordinarily different.

Different with Nicky Campbell: Celebrity Surgeon Scam

Celebrity Surgeon Scam

BBC Radio 5 Live - Different with Nicky Campbell, Celebrity Surgeon Scam

Nicky meets Benita Alexander, the journalist scammed by the surgeon who seduced her.

Benita Alexander tells Nicky about the charming surgeon who persuaded her she would have a fantasy wedding…but ended up accused of manslaughter.

Benita Alexander is an Emmy winning NBC journalist who was sent to interview a surgeon to the stars. Dr Paulo Macchiarini was rumoured to be up for a Nobel price and his groundbreaking trachea surgery was changing medicine. Within a year Benita and Paulo were engaged and he arranged a star studded wedding…but weeks before the big day everything came crashing down. The wedding was a fabrication, but so was Paulo’s whole career and his patients were dying. 

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