and theyjust take most of my brain out. they didn t put it back in! and you expect an answer from me? and the guyjust looked at me, like, i m so sorry. and as you can see, we haven t knocked out her sense of humour centre in the brain at all! it works perfectly well. yeah, but i m german. i never had any! she s from germany and she arrived in the uk and the tumour was discovered. i was born in iran, travelled, lived in the uk and some other fate brought us together to deliver this one operation. and that is interesting, isn t it? that s how we ended up in the hunterian museum. yes, exactly. how we ended up in the museum, absolutely. wendy hurrell, bbc news. what an incredible story. now it s time for a look at the weather with carol. hello again. over the next few days the weather does remain unsettled and it s
to remove a tumour, which her surgeon said was an indicator that no damage was being done to the part of the brain responsible for her hand movement. they ve been speaking to our reporter, wendy hurrell. it was a musician s need to play violin after removal of a brain tumour and a surgeon s understanding of the intrinsic value of music that led to this moment in medical history. my oncologist was very, very good. he said to me, dagmar, we need a plan. only that plan didn t involve my music. so in the end, i said to them, do you think i should play my violin during operation? and he looked at me and said, well, we need to discuss this with the professor, but what an interesting idea. i said, yes, we can try that. and the rest is pretty much history.
and that is interesting, isn t it? that s how we ended up in the hunterian museum. yes, exactly. how we ended up in the museum, absolutely. wendy hurrell, bbc news. now it s time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello. the weather is not looking too bad over the next couple of days, generally sunshine and showers knocking around. however, as we head into saturday, it s going to turn very wet, particularly so across northern ireland, england and wales. and bear in mind parts of the south of the uk, even though we re only three days into the new month, have already had a third of the average rainfall. there s more on the way, as i say. today is an ok day, though. sunny spells and passing showers. the showers probably most frequent across parts of the midlands running into eastern england. quite a few showers for northern ireland, but they ll tend to be quite light and i suspect the showers become a little bit less widespread for wales and south west england. so more in the wa
it works perfectly well! yeah, but i m german. i never had any! she s from germany and she arrived in the uk and the tumour was discovered. i was born in iran, travelled, lived in the uk and some other fate brought us together to deliver this one operation. and that is interesting, isn t it? that s how we ended up in the hunterian museum. yes, exactly. how we ended up in the museum, absolutely. wendy hurrell, bbc news. what an amazing uplifting and happy story. now, scientists say at prehistoric whale discovered in south america could be the heaviest animal to ever exist on planet earth. the mammal could have weighed 200 tonnes. that s more than the very largest blue whales of today. 18 of its bones, seen here, were found in a desert region. plenty more news coming up here on the bbc.