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Girl with Eight Limbs Grows Up (48 mins) [S]
10PM Thursday 28 Jan 2010 Channel 4
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Girl with Eight Limbs Grows Up (48 mins) [S]
10PM Thursday 28 Jan 2010 Channel 4
Bodyshock revisits Lakshmi Tatma, the girl who was born with eight limbs, a year after she underwent a life-saving operation to remove her half-formed conjoined twin's arms and legs.
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Half Ton Dad (49 mins) [S]
10.03PM Thursday 14 Jan 2010 More4
Forty-year-old American father of four Kenneth Brumley weighed 73 stone when he was cut free from his house.
MoreContains graphic footage of medical procedures which may offend some viewers
For information on the issues raised in this programme please visit the Channel 4 website
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Girl Who Cries Blood (49 mins) [S]
10.10PM Tuesday 12 Jan 2010 Channel 4
This Bodyshock Special features 13-year-old Twinkle Dwivedi who, for nearly two years, has inexplicably cried tears of blood. The spontaneous bleeding, which happens almost daily, also…
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Girl with Eight Limbs Grows Up (48 mins) [S]
10PM Thursday 28 Jan 2010 Channel 4
Bodyshock revisits Lakshmi Tatma, the girl who was born with eight limbs, a year after she underwent a life-saving operation to remove her half-formed conjoined twin's arms and legs.
More -
Half Ton Dad (49 mins) [S]
10.03PM Thursday 14 Jan 2010 More4
Forty-year-old American father of four Kenneth Brumley weighed 73 stone when he was cut free from his house.
MoreContains graphic footage of medical procedures which may offend some viewers
For information on the issues raised in this programme please visit the Channel 4 website
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Girl Who Cries Blood (49 mins) [S]
10.10PM Tuesday 12 Jan 2010 Channel 4
This Bodyshock Special features 13-year-old Twinkle Dwivedi who, for nearly two years, has inexplicably cried tears of blood. The spontaneous bleeding, which happens almost daily, also…
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Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change (49 mins) [S]
First Broadcast: 9PM Monday 19 Oct 2009 Channel 4
As experts consider a review of UK guidelines for treating transgender children, this film follows a number of children in the US who told their parents they were born in the wrong body.
MoreFor more information on any of the issues raised visit the Channel 4 website
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Two Foot Tall Teen (49 mins) [S]
First Broadcast: 9PM Thursday 11 Jun 2009 Channel 4
In her home town of Nagpur in India, 16-year-old Jyoti Amge is a normal teenager in many ways: she enjoys going to school and socialising with friends, and dreams of dancing in Bollywood…
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Half Ton Mum (49 mins) [S]
First Broadcast: 10PM Sunday 01 Feb 2009 More4
Half Ton Mum tells the story of the world's heaviest woman, Renee Williams, a 64-stone, 29-year-old mother of two who, in a desperate bid to lose enough weight to save her life, undergoes…
MoreContains graphic images of surgery
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Half Ton Son (48 mins)
First Broadcast: 10PM Monday 12 Jan 2009 Channel 4
Nineteen-year-old Billy Robbins weighs 60 stone and is reported to be the world's heaviest teenager. He has spent the past three years living in a chair as his mother cooks for, cleans and…
MoreSome scenes of a surgical nature
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World's Biggest Boy (48 mins) [S]
First Broadcast: 11.05PM Wednesday 26 Nov 2008 More4
At just seven years old Dzhambulat Khatokhov ('Jambik' for short) is four foot three inches tall and weighs 16 stone - as much as a baby elephant. He dwarfs his older brother who is twice…
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Born with Two Heads (50 mins) [S]
First Broadcast: Monday 20 Feb 2006 Channel 4
Manar Maged was born with two heads. The second has a brain, but no body. Despite this, the second head shows signs of independent consciousness - blinking, smiling, crying. It even tries…
MoreIncludes scenes of a surgical operation
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Half Ton Man (50 mins) [S]
First Broadcast: Monday 06 Feb 2006 Channel 4
Weighing the same as five baby elephants and a shade less than a Mini Cooper, Patrick Deuel is one of the heaviest men ever - and a medical miracle. His heart and other organs should have…
MoreFor information on the issues raised in this programme please visit the Channel 4 website
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The Man Who Ate His Lover (49 mins)
First Broadcast: Monday 01 Mar 2004 Channel 4
On 9 March 2001, Armin Meiwes, a computer engineer from the tiny village of Wüstefeld in Germany, cut off the penis of Bernd Brandes, a software designer from Berlin.
MoreContains detailed descriptions of a brutal crime which some viewers may find disturbing
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Curse of the Mermaid (49 mins) [S]
With her legs fused together like a tail, Milagros Cerron has one of the rarest birth abnormalities in the world: sirenomelia, or 'mermaid syndrome'. Can an operation by charismatic but…
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I Am the Elephant Man (48 mins)
China's 'Elephant Man', Huang Chuncai, tells his own shocking story as he undergoes surgery to remove life-threatening tumours weighing 20kg that have caused him a lifetime of suffering.
MoreScenes of surgery
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The 80-Year-Old Children (48 mins) [S]
A Swiss doctor discovered these tiny, fragile children in a remote Indian village in 2003. Their bones were dissolving and their hair thining and he diagnosed them with progeria, a rare…
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The Girl with Eight Limbs (48 mins)
For a few weeks in 2007 she was the most famous little girl in the world. Lakshmi Tatma was the girl with eight limbs, born with one of the world's rarest physical abnormalities.
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The Man Who Slept for 19 Years (49 mins)
Twenty years ago Terry Wallis fell into a coma. Doctors said he would never wake up, but his devoted mother Angilee never gave up hope.
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