The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

Army program designed to create “super soldiers” who can harness the power of extrasensory perception (ESP) and wield a range of supernatural abilities. He gets wind from a source that there’s a secret U.S. In the 2009 film, journalist Bob Wilton travels to war-torn Iraq to follow an intriguing lead. But they’re completely real for many of the characters in The Men Who Stare at Goats. He has chaired numerous high profile arts and culture conferences involving Cambridge University, The Royal Society, Radio Academy, Royal College of Art and the BBC Music Festival.Running through walls, becoming invisible, and viewing faraway places with the power of your mind might sound like purely fantastical - and fictional - abilities.

Peter has a wealth of hair-raising anecdotes involving his encounters with many cultural icons from Kingsley Amis and Peter Cook to people who are still alive such as Van Morrison and Tracey Emin. BBC Radio 4 listeners will have heard him as MC of Saturday night’s cultural funfest Loose Ends and he occasionally has a go at presenting The Weekender on Radio 2 and Saturday Live on Radio 4.

Peter Curran is an award-winning writer, DJ, presenter, documentary maker and failed drummer. His most recent documentaries are Reverend Death (Channel 4) and Robbie Wiliams and Jon Ronson Journey to the Other Side (Radio 4). He has made several films for Channel 4, including the acclaimed five part series the Secret Rulers of the World and the multi award-winning Tottenham Ayatollah. He also writes occasionally for The Guardian and currently writes and presents the BBC Radio 4 series, Jon Ronson on. His books, Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats were international bestsellers. Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary film maker. Why are Iraqi prisoners of war being forced to listen to Barney the Purple Dinosaur’s theme tune repeatedly, at top volume? Why have 100 de-bleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces command centre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? Has the US army really enlisted the help of Uri Geller? In The Men Who Stare at Goats, soon to be made into a feature film with an all-star cast, author Jon Ronson searches for answers to these and many other questions, revealing some of the extraordinary beliefs at the core of the War on Terror.

The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson