Living with AUTISM

CHRIS PACKHAM on exploring the worlds of other autistic people

- HANNAH DAVIES

Chris Packham has always been refreshingly open about what it’s like to live with autism. Now, the Springwatch presenter wants to explore the experiences of other autistic people as part of a new two-part documentary for BBC2, Inside Our Autistic Minds.

Working with CGI, visual effects and animation experts, Chris will help four young people share their inner worlds through a series of films that reveal what it really means to be autistic.

Brave: Flo

Here, Chris, 61, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome in his 40s, tells TV Times why he wanted to make this moving programme…

What inspired this documentary?