Head Number 7

The story is interesting. I appreciate the narrator, Prof. Turi King, but be prepared for her style of delivery. I think she’s brilliant and well-spoken, and while her voice is pleasant, it has a very sing-song quality. For example, she pronounces words like ‘idea’ with an exaggerated musical inflection, almost as if she’s singing it or asking a question (‘eye-DEE-yUH?’). This style, intended to keep the listener engaged I believe, can be pretty distracting for much of the listen.

This is a well-written, well-researched, and well-presented program without exploitation. The presenter has a beautiful voice which made listening pleasurable.

95% of the story revolves around discussions of how body parts are bought/sold and how we, as humans perceive death and such. I often found myself thinking about basically anything rather than paying attention to any of the episodes. I don’t feel I learned much about the crime itself, which is what drew me to this podcast. I feel the opportunity to tell an unbelievable story was lost.

It was hard to stay with this one since they keep deviating from the actual crime story to speak about cadaver issues in general. Felt like they were dragging a 20 minute story out into several hours with those verbal detours.