Extraordinary People (2003 TV series)
Extraordinary People is a television documentary series broadcast on Five in the United Kingdom. Each programme follows the lives of people with a rare medical condition or unusual ability. People featured have or had rare illnesses such as rabies and eye cancer. Many of these people do activities previously thought impossible for people in their condition.
The show is now on its seventh series.
List of people featured
- Jeanna Giese
- Ben Underwood
- Petero Byakatonda
- Abigail and Brittany Hensel
- Oscar Pistorius
- Kim Peek, one of the world's "super savants"
- Derek Paravicini, blind, learning impaired "musicial genius"
- David Fitzpatrick, fugue state (amnesia) sufferer
- Jose Mestre
- Dede Koswara, an Indonesian man with a form of HPV (Epidermodysplasia verruciformis) which causes tree-like growths.
- Budhia Singh, an Indian boy who ran a 40 mile marathon at the age of four.
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