Woman has stroke, starts speaking with foreign accent

A woman woke up after suffering from a stroke speaking in a foreign accent.

Linda Walker came round in hospital to discover her Geordie twang had disappeared - replaced by what sounds like a Jamaican or Eastern European accent.

The 60-year-old, from Fenham, has a rare case of Foreign Accent Syndrome, where patients wake up speaking differently after suffering brain injury.

Linda is one of only 50 recorded cases in the past 65 years.

I heard her interviewed on the radio earlier and her accent really does veer between a Caribbean accent and an East European one.

Edit: You can listen to the interview here and there's a video on this page.