The studio producer rushed in with a bunch of notes. I didn't know at first what they were all about, so I kept talking. I explained how I was always as baffled as anyone else when I bent a key or spoon. Watches in your house, please concentrate on them and try to make them work. Just take them in your hand and concentrate on them." Just about this time I took my hand away from Jimmy Young's key. It was starting to bend, and it continued to do so. As we watched, he was so startled that he almost shouted: "It's bending right in front of me. I can't believe it!" The key was bending, as I had seen happen so many times before. His words, intense and excited, were being broadcast live all through England, Scotland, and Ireland. We continued talking, and I continued demonstrating. As I sat in the BBC studio in London four months later and concentrated on the key Jimmy Young had given me to bend, this story came back to me. It must have been that memory that prompted me to suggest that people listening in their homes might concentrate on their keys ‐ or spoons or forks ‐ and see what happened. The words just seemed to slip out. And then I added: "If there are any broken After the taped interview had been played on the air in Texas, I had received a signed affidavit from three employees of the Texas Attorney General's Office. An attorney there had suggested to three women employees that they listen to the broadcast and, just for fun, that they put some metal objects on the table in the records room there, and concentrate on them. To the surprise of everyone, as their affidavit reported, a spoon handle bent to about 45 degrees, a door key completely broke in half, and a large paper clip vanished. I know how unbelievable this sounds, but their affidavit is real, and there apparently was no motive for them to make the story up. They would hardly gain anything from it. What puzzled me most was that this was a delayed broadcast, and I had already left Texas when it went on the air. Sometimes it bends only slightly and stops. Other times, it continues up to a 45 degree angle, or even to a right angle. Sometimes it will seem to melt, without heat, and half the key will drop off. I'm never sure myself what a key will do. What happens is very simple but also very startling. The key begins to bend slowly as I either rub it lightly with my fingers or hold my hand over it. Then it continues bending after I take my hand away. Then he asked me if I would demonstrate for him. Of course I had agreed to try before I went on the show. Jimmy took a thick Yale key from his pocket and put it down in front of me. I did what I usually do, laying my hand over the key and wishing it to bend. Jimmy was watching carefully, and had taped a show there, and it went on the air several days after I had left. On that show, I had done the usual demonstration of bending keys and nails, while the commentator described what was happening. Jimmy began with the usual questions. He asked when I had first found out that I was able to bend keys, nails or other metal objects just by touching them lightly and when I had learned I could start up a watch or clock that hadn't run for years. I said I had noticed these things way back in my first years in school, much to the surprise of my classmates, my teachers' my parents ‐ and also myself. In fact, I am still surprised, and I still have a sense of wonder when these things happen. The Jimmy Young Show has a large radio audience. It reaches all over England, up into Scotland, and to Ireland, and I'm sure he's very popular with his listeners. The audience reaction that followed proved that. WHEN I WENT into the tiny BBC radio studio to be interviewed on the Jimmy Young Show that November morning in 1973, I wasn't prepared for what was going to happen. I was ready for something, but nothing as big and as mind‐blowing as what followed. I liked Jimmy Young. He was a beautiful person, I knew right away, very warm and friendly. I usually can tell immediately whether I'm going to like a person. Jimmy made me feel right at home, which was good because I was a little nervous, as I usually am when I go before an audience.