My Brilliant Brain

Latest Episodes

• Accidental Genius

  An insight into savants, a rare group of people who acquire skills by accident, including Liverpudlian builder Tommy McHugh who woke from a major brain haemorrhage to find he had artistic ability and an insatiable appetite for painting, despite never having previously picked up an artist's brush. Last in series

• Make Me a Genius

  The story of 38-year-old Susan Polgar, the world's first female chess grandmaster, who has memorised over 100,000 gameplay scenarios. Her psychologist father Laszlo believes her remarkable abilities were taught through extra tutelage in childhood rather than inherited - putting forward the case that genius can be learned

• Born Genius

  New three-part documentary series exploring the origin of genius, questioning whether extraordinary intellectual abilities are inherited, developed naturally or acquired by accident. The first programme examines the story of seven-year-old concert pianist Marc Yu who, at the age of two, heard a piece of music at a party and was able to recreate it on a piano flawlessly only moments later