When is What Makes A Psychopath? on BBC Two tonight, who is Uta Frith and what’s the Horizon doc about?
BBC Two's Horizon series continues tonight with an in-depth exploration of the psychopathic mind.
The documentary looks at what a psychopath actually is, what drives them to kill and whether they can be cured. Here's the lowdown on tonight's programme...
What time is What Makes A Psychopath? on BBC Two tonight?
The one-off hour-long documentary What Makes A Psychopath? is on BBC Two tonight, August 29, at 9pm.
It goes up against Trust Me on BBC One, Manchester:100 Days After The Attack on ITV, Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls on Channel 4 and Inside Balmoral on C5.
Who is Uta Frith and what is the documentary about?
Professor Uta Frith is a German psychologist who works at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.
She has written several books on autism and dyslexia and in 2015 presented a Horizon programmed entitled OCD: A Monster in my Mind.
In What Makes A Psychopath? Professor Frith probes the biology and psychology of what makes people kill.
During the filming of the programme, the documentary maker Rebecca Harrison met killer rapist Joshua Wright, paedophile Mark Moye and murderer Ryan Klug - all serving sentences between 30 and 100 years - at the huge Indiana State Prison.
An encounter with a 17-year-old prisoner called Robert, who made an uncanny appraisal of her own personality, left Harrison petrified.