- Title: Equinox: The Nuts And Bolts Of Ben Bowlby
- Date: 4th September 1990
- Summary: Profile of Ben Bowlby who is dyslexic and a car designer and poses the question as to whether there are equally gifted children who are lost in an unsympathetic educational system. DIM OR DYSLEXIC? BEN BOWLBY CERTAINLY ISN'T DIM. EVER SINCE HE WAS A TODDLER HE'S BUITL WORKING MODELS. NOW AGE 23 AND STILL DYSLEXIC, HE'S DESIGNED AND BUILT A REMARKABLE RACING CAR THAT HAS AMAZED EVEN EXPERTS LIKE LOTUS. BEN IS TAKING BRITAIN'S FIRST DEGREE IN RACING CAR DESIGN - AND MANY OF HIS EX-TEACHERS QUESTION WHETHER EQUALLY GIFTED CHILDREN ARE SUBMERGED BY AN UNSYMPATHETIC EDUC- ATIONAL SYSTEM. TONIGHT EQUINOX RETRACES HIS DIFFICULTY AT SCHOOL AND HIS BRILLIANCE WITH MECHAN ICAL THINGS TO DISCOVER JUST WHAT ARE 'THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF BEN BOWLBY'.
- Description:A mildly dyslexic character who builds racing cars from scrap and is followed onhis quest to learn from the engineering geniuses of formula one.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Uden Associates Ltd.
- Programme Episode:1
- Transmission Date:05/09/1990
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 1990s