Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Jon Ronson On... Positive Thinking

Jon Ronson explores ideas surrounding positive thinking with extra-ordinary stories illuminating the human condition. Ian Haworth talks about his experience of making a break from a cult.

Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Jon Ronson On... How to Be Invisible

This week he talks to Michael Foot, a World War II Veteran who was fooled by a French resistance spy who could turn his personality off and Frank Ahearn whose job it is to make people vanish. He also meets comedian Jon Holmes, whose parents are 'invisible' to him as he is adopted, and Maggie O'Farrell who recalls her time as a chamber maid, cleaning hotel rooms while guests carried on extremely personal activities.

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Jon Ronson On... Amateur Sleuths

Journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson explores the world of amateur sleuthing with a collection of extra-ordinary stories illuminating the human condition.
This week he talks to Jeremy Dyson, of the League of Gentlemen, who recalls his search for a missing childhood maze, philosophizes with a man who spent his life looking for the Loch Ness Monster, and meets Tony Frewin, Stanley Kubrick's live-in amateur sleuth who tracked down Kubrick's impersonator.