---
aliases:
- Leslie Ronald Young
- Jimmy Young
born: 1921-09-21
category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
died: 2016-11-07
location: Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England
summary: Leslie Ronald 'Jimmy' Young was a veteran British broadcaster for BBC Radio
  2, known for his show *The Jimmy Young Show*, which had a wide audience across England,
  Ireland, and Scotland.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
---

Leslie Ronald "Jimmy" Young was a veteran British broadcaster for BBC Radio 2, known for his show *The Jimmy Young Show*, which had a wide audience across England, Ireland, and Scotland[^1].

On November 23, 1973, Young conducted a live on-air experiment with [Uri Geller](/people/uri-geller/). Young asked Geller to bend a large key. Geller concentrated, and encouraged listeners across the [United Kingdom](/places/united-kingdom/) to summon their own [psychokinetic](/concepts/psychokinesis/) powers and bend metal in their homes. Live on national radio, Young exclaimed, "It’s bending right in front of me, I can’t believe it!"[^1].

Following the broadcast, the [BBC](/organizations/bbc/) switchboard was inundated with calls from citizens reporting metal objects in their homes inexplicably bending, and watches restarting. This event, which the [Central Intelligence Agency](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/) referred to as "secondary consequences," led many people across Great Britain to believe they had bent metal with their own minds[^1].

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.