Season 1

(2016)
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Episodes 10

1 Memory

April 4, 2016

Jack meets the world memory champion and a man who can remember every day of his life.

2 Faces

April 11, 2016

Jack meets a man who is unable to recognise faces and puts a super-recogniser to the test.

3 Phantom Limb

April 18, 2016

Jack joins amputees trying to find out why they feel sensations in their missing limbs.

4 Seeing Is Believing

April 25, 2016

Jack meets a man who has bizarre hallucinations and witnesses cutting edge surgery.

5 Time

May 2, 2016

Jack meets a woman who has lost all sense of time and reveals how time can be elastic.

6 The Senses

May 9, 2016

Jack meets people with synaesthesia and experiences multisensory gastronomy.

7 Pain & Fear

May 16, 2016

Wim Hof teaches Jack how to control his pain and plunge into the ice cold sea.

8 Creativity

May 23, 2016

Jack meets a man with Sudden Artistic Output syndrome and unleashes his creativity.

9 Sleep

May 30, 2016

Jack meets two people who can’t stop falling asleep and finds out the consequences of sleep deprivation.

10 Language

June 6, 2016

Jack meets a British man who awoke from a coma speaking only fluent French.

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