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EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE Series
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THE REAL RAIN MAN
Fifty-four-year-old Kim Peek is arguably the world's most famous savant and the inspiration behind the Oscar-winning film, Rain Man. He was diagnosed as mentally retarded at birth by a neurologist who spared him five minutes on his way to a golf game, and his parents were advised to place him in an institution. But his father, Fran, refused to give up on him and under his care Kim has developed a memory that, without equal, has made him a household name in the USA. Described as "a living Google", Kim is a confounding mix of disability and brilliance that has baffled neurosurgeons.
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THE GIRL WHO MAKES MIRACLES
Documentary about Audrey Santo, who has been in a coma since 1987 when she was three years old and had an accident, and who has become associated with Catholic religious phenomena and miracles, including stigmata manifestations and weeping religious statues. She has also become a focus for those looking for cures and miracles.
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THE BOY WHO SEES WITHOUT EYES
Ben is blind and, like other blind people, relies on some specialist equipment to survive. He uses talking computer software and a Braille machine to help with his homework. Ben does not have a guide dog, uses no stick, and does not even use his hands to aid his mobility.
Instead, he has developed something of a supersense: he is the only person in the world who navigates using clicks. As he walks, he makes a continuous clicking noise with his tongue. As these clicks echo around him, he is able to draw up a detailed mental plan of his surroundings and adjust his direction accordingly. So accurate is his technique that he is even able to go rollerblading on the street, negotiating narrow gaps between parked cars that even sighted children might find challenging.
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THE BOY WITH THE INCREDIBLE BRAIN
This is your chance to witness the breathtaking story of Daniel Tammet. A twenty-something with extraordinary mental abilities, Daniel is one of the world's few savants. He can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head, and learn a language in a week. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking similar abilities in everyone. He also meets the world's most famous savant, the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman's character in the Oscar winning film Rain Man.
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THE GIRL WHO SURVIVED RABIES
This is the incredible story of Jeanna Giese, a 15-year-old girl from Wisconsin who became the first person ever to survive rabies, one of the most frightening and deadly diseases known to mankind.
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A HUNDRED ORGASMS A DAY
Looks at three women who suffer from a condition whereby the experience a state of constant physical sexual arousal. They talk about the effects it has had on their lives and at the cures they have tried to find.
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THE TWIN WITHIN THE TWIN
This moving documentary investigates the complications that can occur in twin pregnancies, starting with Sanjay, the Bengali farmer whose twin emerged from his belly after 36 years.
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THE BOY WHO LIVED BEFORE
Ever since he could talk, Cameron has been telling stories of his life on Barra, a remote island in the Outer Hebrides, some 220 miles from his current home in Glasgow. He describes in detail his childhood on the island: the white house he lived in, the black-and-white dog he walked on the beach. He talks about his mother, seven siblings and his father, Shane Robertson, who died when he was run over by a car. Nothing strange about all that. Except the fact that Cameron is only five years old now; his memories seem to be of a former life.
Nothing strange about all that. Except the fact that Cameron is only five years old now; his memories seem to be of a former life.
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THE MAN WITH NO PAST
Before the 4th of December 2005, David was a normal 25-year-old with family, friends and memories. That afternoon, he suffered one of the rarest forms of memory loss ever recorded. The condition, known as a psychogenic fugue, wiped his entire memory clean, leaving him with no identity. This film follows David as he tries to recover the life he had before and attempts to start all over again.
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THE WOMAN WHO LOST 30 STONE
How do you go from 45 stone down to a dress size 12? If you're Connie Jackson, you lose weight thanks to a life-threatening series of drastic surgical operations. This programme charts her transformation.
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THE SEVEN YEAR OLD SURGEON
This astonishing film follows 12-year-old Akrit Jaswal as he researches cures for cancer in his Delhi laboratory, which was set up by his proud parents. We see him jetting to the UK to meet top British scientists, who give their verdicts on the young genius, as well as psychologists who assess the effects these achievements could be having on his childhood.
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IDENTICAL QUADS
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a clone? Another human being with the same face, body and DNA as you? Well, imagine having three clones:a little gang of yourself. Imagine the scrapes you could get each other out of. Imagine the fun, the confusion, the noise. But imagine giving birth to four babies at once...now that could be slightly less enjoyable.
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THE COUPLE WITH 27 CHILDREN
This is the story of Jeanette Murphy, Supermum. The 53 year-old from Atlanta, Georgia is a full-time carer who has adopted 23 children with special needs on top of her own four birth children. Remarkably, the family of twenty-nine all live under one roof.
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THE BOY WITH A TUMOUR FOR A FACE
This astonishing film follows up on the case of Novemthree, the boy whose face was almost completely obscured by colossal tumours by the age of two. He is settling back into a life after groundbreaking surgery and beginning to regain both physical and emotional confidence, but a year on, the tumours are growing again. More surgery might kill him, but leaving the tumours unchecked is a fatal decision. Novemthree's life hangs in the balance.
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THE 46 YEAR PREGNANCY
This astonishing documentary examines two remarkable pregnancies. In one, a 75-year-old Moroccan woman gave birth to a 'stone baby', 46 years after it was conceived. And a British woman describes her ectopic pregnancy, in which her baby developed outside the womb.
This almost always leads to the baby's death, but in one of the cases, a boy who developed in the stomach lining and was delivered two months early, survived as one of triplets - at odds of around 60 million to one.
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THE 4 YEAR OLD WHO RAN 40 MILES
"I love to run," squeaks four-year-old Budhia Singh as his coach squashes him into a variety of muscle-stretching yoga positions. It's 4am, a typical blazing, misty dawn in Orissa, and Budhia is preparing to run a half-marathon for the fifth time in seven weeks. Budhia is no ordinary four-year-old. Since the age of three he has been running twenty miles a day, and he is revered as a demi-god in his town. But is Budhia's a story of exceptional talent or a darker tale of child exploitation?
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THE WOMAN WITH HALF A BODY
Rosemarie Siggins from Pueblo, Colorado, is a car nut: she's been into cars, trucks and all things automotive since the age of three. She also has only half a body but she doesn't let her disability stop her from rebuilding a 1968 Mustang which she plans to race. Born with a rare genetic condition that meant her legs were deformed and without sensation, Rose had her legs amputated as a young child. However, she is determined not to let this get in the way of living her life, even giving birth to a healthy son seven years ago. And when people ask her how she deals with her disability, she replies: "This is my reality. This is my normal."
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THE MUSICAL GENIUS
Derek Paraviccini is blind and has the IQ of a four-year-old, yet he can play anything from Bach to Rimsky Korsakov at lightning speed in keys that most professional musicians wouldn't even dare attempt. This film follows Derek as he undergoes a series of tests to fathom how his genius can coexist with such severe disability.
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THE GIRL WITH A NEW FACE
Thirteen-year-old Marlie Casseus is one of the bravest girls in the world. A terrible disease is killing her, destroying her face from the inside, as a seven-kilo growth is closing her throat and making breathing difficult. This documentary follows Marlie as she undergoes high-risk surgery that claims a place in medical history.
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"In politica, prostia nu este un handicap". - Napoleon Bonaparte
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