The man who wrote 'The Men Who Stare At Goats'

Thanks to Olly Wiseman's sound advice, here are a lot of documentary-like radio programmes created by Jon Ronson, whose reality-based book about the US military's investment in paranormal warriors was made into an awesome film a few years ago.

He is one of those people whose life seems to be quite like how a lot of people including me would like their life to be quite like. If you haven't seen the film version of the book, then do as it is fantastic. If you have, then you will probably want to tuck into these bad boys.

Sample quotes:

"There could only have been two possible explanations: either the maze did exist, or it didn't exist". 

"...but he had unearthed something valuable in the Loch, something just as valuable as a Plesiosaurus." 

"As a child, Danny Robbins wanted to be a detective like Sam Spade, but instead he became a humourist on the radio, which is noble and exhilarating in its own way, but then again it isn't."

Also here is Jon Ronson's website, wherefrom all these links are.

Series 1 

Jon Ronson On Amateur Sleuths 
Jon Ronson On How to Be Invisible 
Jon Ronson On Positive Thinking 
Jon Ronson On Going West 
Jon Ronson On the Comfort of Strangers 
Jon Ronson On Magical Moments 

Series 2 

Jon Ronson On Living in the past 
Jon Ronson On Irrational thought 
Jon Ronson On Lying 
Jon Ronson On Friendship 
Jon Ronson On Waiting 
Jon Ronson On Building Bridges 

Series 3 

Jon Ronson On The Worst internet date 
Jon Ronson On Waking from a Dream 
Jon Ronson On Uncontrolable responses 
Jon Ronson on Crushed egos 
Jon Ronson on Glastonbury Festival part 1 
Jon Ronson on Glastonbury Festival part 2 

Series 4 

Jon Ronson on Receiving bad news 
Jon Ronson On Being fancy 
Jon Ronson on The wrong kind of madness 
Jon Ronson On How to stop time 
Jon Ronson on Doing anything for love 

Series 5 

Jon Ronson on The Fear of Flying 
Jon Ronson on When Small talk goes wrong 
Jon Ronson on Living in a movie 
Jon Ronson on Being alone 
Jon Ronson on Ambition 

Series 6 

Jon Ronson on Voices in your Head 
Jon Ronson on Spying 
Jon Ronson on The fine line between good and bad 
Jon Ronson on Witch hunts 
Jon Ronson on Aiming low