- Title: Brain Man
- Date: 1st January 1970
- Description:SEE RECORD 100089 FOR SHOTLIST Brain Man (International Version) Daniel Tammet is a calculating wizard,memory champion and super linguist; he has had amazing computational skills ever since a severe epileptic fit when he was 3 years old. Daniel's psychological make-up is explored by Cambridge University autism expert Professor Simon Baron Cohen. In America Daniel meets other extraordinary people like himself,including Kim Peek,whose story was the basis of the movie "Rainman". Brain scientists at the Salk Institute in San Diego discover the key to Daniel's ability is a condition known as synaesthesia. Daniel learns one of the world's hardest languages,Icelandic,and gets interviewed on Icelandic TV after 7 days of learning to speak it. Narrator: Paul McGann Written and Directed by: Steve Gooder
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Focus Productions Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:01/01/1970
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1970s