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Episode 2

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The UK's leading inventors build life-changing solutions for people in desperate need. The team attempt to build a BMX bicycle for a young boy who was born with no hands or feet.

The Big Fix team use cutting-edge science and technology to find solutions for problems that have so far gone unsolved.

They attempt to tackle one of the biggest rural crimes in the UK and work to find a way to build a BMX bicycle for a young boy who was born with no hands or feet.

Meanwhile, in Peterborough, 56-year-old Graham is suffering from locked-in syndrome, meaning he is almost completely paralysed and unable to speak. Can the team come up with a way for him to have conversations with the medical team around him and, most importantly, his family and friends?

59 minutes

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  • The White Stripes

    Seven Nation Army

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterSimon Reeve
ParticipantHaiyan Zhang
ParticipantJude Pullen
ParticipantRoss Atkin
ParticipantYusuf Muhammad
ParticipantZoe Laughlin
ParticipantRuby Steel
ParticipantRyan White
Executive ProducerTim Harcourt
Executive ProducerRos Ponder
Series ProducerTom Watt-Smith
DirectorTom Watt-Smith
Production CompanyStudio Lambert
Executive ProducerMick Ebeling
Executive ProducerCaskey Ebeling
Production CompanyNot Impossible Labs

Broadcasts

Print your own big life fixes

Print your own big life fixes

Makers can download and work with some of the designs you've seen on screen

Meet the Fixers

Meet the Fixers

Learn more about the inventors coming up with ingenious solutions for complex problems.

Engineers have been improving lives since ancient times - explore further with The Open University

Engineers have been improving lives since ancient times - explore further with The Open University

Visit OpenLearn, the OU’s home of free learning, to learn more about engineering.

Short Films from BBC Teach

Short Films from BBC Teach

See how a group of the UK's inventors create new solutions for people in desperate need.

Charities and Organisations

Charities and Organisations

A list of charities and organisations that supported production.