The man who woke up in the future

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When Dr Pier Piccioni woke up after a car accident, 12 years of his life had been erased.

Dr Pierdante Piccioni is an unwilling time-traveller. Twelve years of his life were completely wiped from his memory after he suffered brain damage in a car crash in 2013. When he woke up in the hospital the next day, he thought it was 2001 and could not recognise his wife or his now adult sons.

Reeling from the shock, and no longer able to practise medicine, Pier tries to find the man he had been. Searching through thousands of emails he discovers that he had a dark side.

This is the amazing true story of a man out of time, who, unable to retrieve his past, endeavours to find love and a future in a strange new world.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Edgar Maddicott

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(Photo: Dr Pierdante Piccioni. Credit: Sylvain Lefevre/ Getty)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.
0:05.0	My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.
0:08.7	It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, moments and movements.
0:14.8	Stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.
0:19.1	And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music
0:21.7	means we can tell those stories like no one else.
0:24.4	We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.
0:28.5	So whether you want an insightful take on music right now
0:31.3	or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,
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0:41.5	I was a wrong man in a wrong time. I am Dr. Jackal and Mr. Wright. Sometimes I am 53 and
0:53.9	sometimes I'm 65.
0:57.0	Like a foreign person in a world that they didn't understand.
1:03.3	Nobody can understand me.
1:05.8	And I felt for a long time alone.
1:11.4	Pierre Dante Pierre Pichoni is an unwilling time traveller.
1:17.0	He woke up in the future.
1:20.2	His loved ones different, the world changed, his own face unrecognisable,
1:26.4	a Dr Jekyll who discovered he also had a darker side.
1:39.5	From the BBC World Service, this is Lives Less Ordinary, the home of extraordinary true life stories.
1:47.6	Hello, I'm Joe Fidgen.
1:49.6	This story ends on the 25th of October 2001 and begins again on the 31st of May 2013 in a hospital bed in northern Italy.
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