Disability: A New History: Freaks and Entrepreneurs

In Touch presenter Peter White examines modern ideas about disabled people who exhibited themselves in 18th and 19th-century freak shows, many of whom in fact became wealthy entrepreneurs and also challenged society's expectations of what they could achieve. He discovers how dwarves were delivered to people's doors in boxes, and studies the artist and magician Matthias Buchinger, who was born without arms or legs but performed for royalty. From 2013