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06/06/2013

Q&A: How to control the brain with light

This year’s Cheltenham Science Festival will host ‘Controlling the Mind and Slicing the Body with Light’, an event sponsored by Focus. We spoke to the three presenters to find out more.
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My Shocking Story

Discovery
Broadcast time: 
Sun, 2009-10-18 21:00

Conjoined twins Ganga and Jamuna are alive and well at 40. Is there still a chance they could be separated? Specialist Dr James Stein visits them to find out, in a programme titled Human Spider Sisters. Then it’s back to Indonesia to revisit Dede, the fisherman with a disfiguring skin disease featured in earlier programme Half Man, Half Tree. Another sufferer has been found, so now Dede will travel to his village to meet him.
A freakshow element runs throughout these shows. But without this exposure, the subjects would have little hope of getting the help they need.