Discovery (British TV programme)

Discovery is a British documentary television programme, produced by Duncan Dallas, for Yorkshire Television.[1] 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).[2] 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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[1] Potter, Jeremy Independent Television in Britain: Volume 4: Companies and Programmes, 1968–80 Macmillan p 90-91

[2] Halliwell, Martin Romantic Science and the Experience of Self: Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks, Routledge, 1999 Footnote 23