Inventing the Impossible: The Big Life Fix - BBC2

Inventing the Impossible: The Big Life Fix
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Inventors help a trainee hairdresser hampered by his deformed hand, a disabled man who wants to get back on his snowboard and a young man who has to avoid sunlight

Inventors help a trainee hairdresser hampered by his deformed hand, a disabled man who wants to get back on his snowboard and a young man who has to avoid sunlight

Kyle has always dreamt of being a hairdresser, but having been born without a fully formed left hand he can’t complete the course at the hairdressing academy.

Step in engineer extraordinaire Jude Pullen (pictured above with Kyle), who works around the clock to design and build Kyle a bespoke tool box with 10 different devices that each attach to his hand via a tailor-made socket.

Inventing the Impossible: The Big Life Fix

Time to see if Kyle's new hand can work its magic on Jude's hair...

Also featured in this new series of the cutting-edge design programme are a disabled snowboarder who hopes to get back on the slopes thanks to a life-changing board, and a young man allergic to sunlight who’s putting his faith in a revolutionary silicone mask.

It’s inspirational – and moving – stuff.

TV Times rating: *****

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