Cutting Edge Season 17

E1: The Dead Body Squad

Documentary about specialist cleaners who are responsible for cleaning up after a dead body has been found.

E2: Wedding Days

The story of 20 couples who all married in 1980 and featured in their local newspaper, the Brighton and Hove Gazette. We discover what's happened to them in the intervening 25 years.

E3: My Child's Psychic

My Kid's Psychic follows two children on their extraordinary journeys into the spirit world. Nicola is convinced that her 15 yr old daughter Heather is an Indigo child. Followers believe that they are part of an evolutionary leap and communicate with one another telepathically and have a natural ability to heal. We follow Heather over the summer as she tries to develop her psychic abilities. 8 year old Oliver's situation is for his Mum, Simone more worrying. From an early age she says he has had a six sense where he regularly sees spirits. This combined with a behavioral disorder that has been diagnosed as ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder motivates Simone to try to seek answers to her sons increasingly perplexing behaviour.

E4: Pram-Face

Documentary following the lives of single mothers living on a council estate.

E5: Cult Killer

On January 7th 2005, 29 year old Rick Rodriguez murdered his former nanny and then killed himself on a lonely desert highway. Hours earlier he had videoed his suicide note and this final message provided a remarkable insight into a deeply damaged life. It also lifted the lid on one of the most notorious religious cults to emerge out of the 1960s counter culture: The Children of God sect.