Radio Times: Review by:; Claire Webb

Body Season on BBC4 continues with a film made by former Bond girl Maryam d’Abo. In 2007, she suffered a near-fatal brain haemorrhage and woke up a different woman. In a film made by her husband, director Hugh Hudson, she interviews fellow casualties, including Quincy Jones and an American who had her skull removed and stored in her abdomen for three months when her brain started to swell.

While one neurosurgeon describes his job as “a bit like bomb disposal”, others are as awestruck by the enormity of it all as their patients. This is a thought-provoking, almost poetic, meditation on that fragile 3Ib bundle of muscles and nerves that makes us who we are.

About this programme

Former Bond girl Maryam d'Abo recounts how she overcame a cerebral haemorrhage and listens to the stories of survivors of vascular brain diseases, including Robert McCrum, Pat Martino, and Quincy Jones. The actress talks to leading experts in neurology, and also explains how it affected her personal and social life as she struggled to recover from an injury that could have killed her.