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Two blog entries by Louis regarding this piece; * http://louistheroux....iring-in-april/ * http://www.guardian....n?newsfeed=true

Louis Theroux - Extreme Love DURATION: 1 HOUR In his upcoming documentary "Extreme Love: Autism", Louis meets 20-year-old Brian who is severely autistic and his behaviour – setting fire to the house and attacking his mother – has led to the difficult decision of placing him in residential care. Louis also meets Brian's mother, whose love for her son has been tested to its limits. Here's a clip from when Louis looks after Brian while his mother pops out. Brian can be very sociable, but here he has other things on his mind... You may have seen this clip during Louis' interview on The One Show last night, but here's an extended version... http://www.bbc.co.uk...rammes/p00r3885 Thursday 19th April BBC2 9PM He also has one that was meant to be shown a couple of weeks ago on the porn industry but thats been pushed back until a later date. As one of the big retirement destinations for middle class Americans, Phoenix Arizona has also become a capital of dementia care. Louis visits the city in order to spend time in state-of-the-art care home Beatitudes and with home-based carers, whose love is tested by a condition that steadily erodes the personality and character of their partners. At Beatitudes Louis meets Gary, a 69-year-old patient who thinks he is serving in the military and that it is his job to check the state of everyone’s teeth. Louis submits to a dental check-up, is introduced to two of Gary’s new resident girlfriends and spends time with Gary’s wife of 20 years, Carla – a woman whom Gary robustly denies ever having married. In a suburban Phoenix bungalow Louis agrees to become carer-for-a-day to Nancy, a formerNew York model with a personality to match. He finds a woman who can no longer remember her way through a complete sentence, but also a husband who finds much to love in the glimpses of personality that still sparkle through the dementia. Please find addition information on Extreme Love: Dementia on Louis’ Blog post: –HERE– http://louistheroux.com/blog/?p=104