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Discovery is a British documentary television programme, produced by Duncan Dallas, for Yorkshire Television. It was first shown in England in 1974.
The first episode was about the post-encephalitic patients described by the neurologist Oliver Sacks (see Awakenings). The documentary won a Red Ribbon at the 1978 American Film Festival and first prize at the 1978 International Rehabilitation Film Festival.
References
- Potter, Jeremy Independent Television in Britain: Volume 4: Companies and Programmes, 1968–80 Macmillan p 90-91
- Halliwell, Martin Romantic Science and the Experience of Self: Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks, Routledge, 1999 Footnote 23
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