Storyville
Season 13 Episode 15 - The Genius and the Boys
D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea. Over his years working amongst the tribes of the South Seas, he adopted 57 kids, bringing them to a new life in Washington DC. But, at the height of his career, rumours began to spread he was a paedophile. Gajdusek would argue that if sex with children was okay in their own cultures, he wasn't wrong to join in. How could a great mind lose insight so totally, and why would the scientific community to which he was a hero be so quick to leap to his defence and dismiss the allegations? This striking and powerful documentary explores the limits of insight and the power of self-delusion, through one of the century's true geniuses - a man prepared to defy convention and challenge people's most cherished beliefs, a man whose scientific brilliance seemed to blind many to his extraordinary personal failings.
Episodes in Season 13
Blast!
80 min
Fashion Victim
60 min
Wild Art: Olly and Suzi Paint Predators
60 min
Heavy Load
60 min
Prostitution Behind the Veil
50 min
Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry
90 min
Maradona: In the Hands of the Gods
90 min
Bulletproof Salesman
60 min
Robert Capa - In Love and War
50 min
The Children's Ward
60 min
The Jazz Baroness
80 min
Up for Debate - Team Qatar
90 min
The Baby and the Buddha
90 min
The Jew who Dealt with Nazis - Killing Kasztner
90 min
The Genius and the Boys
80 min
Blindsight
100 min
Angels of Rio
60 min
The Trials of Oppenheimer
90 min
The Time of their Lives
60 min
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
90 min
Man on Wire
85 min
The Baby and the Buddha
59 min
Napoli - City of the Damned
70 min
Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired
85 min
Men of the City
60 min
War Heroes - Section 60 Arlington Cemetery
60 min
Hi Society - The Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam
60 min
Survivors: The Horse Boy
60 min
Simon Mann's African Coup: Black Beach
60 min
The Age of Stupid
85 min
