In this podcast, I explore the phenomenon of haemorrhagic stroke. I start with the anecdote of Oscar award winning actress Patricia Neal, then the wife of writer Roald Dahl, as narrated by neurologist Tom Solomon in his book 'Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine'.

Neal's case symbolised the onset and course of a ruptured cerebral aneurysm which presented with the classical thunderclap headache.

The podcast also uses patient memoirs to illustrate the other causes of bleeding in the brain such as ruptured arteriovenous malformations. I also discussed the investigations, and the medical and surgical treatments of the vascular disorders covered in the podcast.