Historian Todd Tucker interviewed Leg for his book, The Great Starvation Experiment. During the six-month starvation period, Leg's moods began to swing back and forth. He took to eating in the corner by himself. In an oral history interview, he talks about how during the starvation phase, he felt his character start to slip away.
We’re sharing a bonus episode from another Pushkin podcast, Revisionist History. Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm’s obsessed with experiments – natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. In this episode, Revisionist History examines the testimony of 18 men who took part in an astonishing experiment at the University of Minnesota during the Second World War. Revisionist History takes you through the tapes, and asks why people are still arguing over the Minnesota experiment 75 years later.
You can hear more from Revisionist History at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/rhs7?sid=thl
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