BBC TV: The Big Life Fix with Simon Reeve

Dec 03, 2016 2 Replies

The team of inventors are challenged to come up with solutions for three ve ry different problems.



They attempt to help a terminally ill photographer who can no longer use hi s hands to operate a camera. They try to bring cutting-edge communication t o a remote Welsh village which has no internet access and an unreliable tel ephone connection. And they work to give some control back to a young desig ner who has Parkinson's disease and who has been unable to use a pen since developing tremors in her hands two years ago.



From a man with locked-in syndrome who wants to communicate with his family , to an 11-year-old boy born without hands and feet who is desperate to rid e a bike, the series offers extraordinary insight into the lives of those w hose dreams seem to be beyond grasp and who need the help of experts.



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Wed 7 Dec 2016 21:00 BBC Two repeated Thu 8 Dec 2016 23:15 BBC Two



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Participants (inventors or users) sought for series 2



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Owain



Hmm, Ability Net has been solving such problems as one offs for some years to my knowledge.

Brian

but they haven;'t been doing it on the telly, have they?

(you could just as easily argue that make over programs are a waste of time because people have been doing diy for ages)

tim

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