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A Brief History of Tim

Episode 4

S2 · E4
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Aired
Season / Episode
2 / 4
Runtime
30 min
Original network/platform
BBC iPlayer
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Overview

After being mistaken for an addict, Tim is welcomed in by an eccentric religious community who set their sites on his spiritual health.

About the show

Tim has cerebral palsy, which means that people judge him, and his crumpled tissue of a body. But usually they judge him wrongly. Because what they don't realise is that inside that severely disabled, fragile body is a bit of an asshole. Tim knows he makes people uncomfortable - he does it on purpose. He knows his cerebral palsy means he can get away with saying what others can't. But that's his problem: time spent taking aim at life's easier targets means Tim takes his eye off its bigger prizes: the job, the girl and the visa. Like faking it as a refugee, making a disabled nemesis and offending his new colleagues at a greeting cards company, Tim becomes the master of his own downfall and it's left to his friends Ruth, his indifferent care worker, and Idris, to get him out of all the disastrous situations he gets himself into.

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