The man who slept for 19 years.

A documentary following the story of Terry Wallis who 'woke up' last summer after spending 19 years in a coma. In truth, the title of the programme is somewhat confusing because what seems rather to have happened is that Wallis regained the ability to speak. He has no short-term memory and thinks his daughter who was a baby when he went into a coma and is now in her early twenties, is a potential girlfriend. What the programme does offer, however, is an insight into the nature of coma and the profound ways it affects the brain. We see a young woman being retrained to perform the most basic of physiological functions like sitting and walking after waking from a coma. And we meet a British man who briefly lost consciousness after a minor car crash and is now unable to feel emotion, or in fact any empathic emotions.