Different with Nicky Campbell - Celebrity Surgeon Scam

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 prize 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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Producer: Ailsa Rochester
Editor: Jo Meek
Sound Design: Ailsa Rochester

Published on Tuesday, 2nd April 2024.

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