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April 9 on PBS   Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Friday, April 9 at 9 p.m. on PBS, at pbs.org/oliversacks and on the PBS Video app. The two-hour film explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia and a medical establishment that embraced his work only decades after the fact. Oliver writing on porch, 2015 Photo Credit: Bill Hayes In February 2015, a few weeks after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, Oliver Sacks sat down with Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns for a series o...

At the helm of the documentary is Emmy-winning filmmaker Ric Burns. Burns was invited into Sacks’ life in 2015, weeks after Sacks was diagnosed with terminal cancer. “From the start, this project has been one of the most moving and revelatory I’ve ever had the privilege of being involved with,” Burns says. “From the moment my colleagues and I walked into his apartment on Horatio Street in New York in February 2015, it was clear that virtually every issue of importance about what it means to live a life and to be a human being was concentrated in his unusual life story: survival, bea...