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49. The Man Who Lost His Body (1998)

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The story of Ian Waterman, a butcher who contracted a rare illness that made him lose his proprioception, the hidden sense of where one’s body is in space.

Having no idea where his limbs were, Ian was unable to control them, and was destined to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

BBC Horizon 1998, Five parts, 10 minutes each