Operation Operation (originally aired on April 28, 2020)

Constant Wonder

Dec 30, 2020 8:00 pm
52:51 mins

Tim Walsh, a toy historian and game inventor, tells the story of people banding together to help the inventor of the game "Operation" pay for an operation he couldn't afford due to bankruptcy. Thomas Morris shares medical curiosities from history, such as how one doctor conducted an appendectomy on himself. Mary Pilon recounts the surprisingly scandalous history of the board game "Monopoly."

Episode Segments

Episode Segments

When the Man Who Invented "Operation" Needs One

24m

Tim Walsh, a toy historian and game inventor, tells the story of people banding together to help the inventor of the game "Operation" pay for an operation he couldn't afford due to bankruptcy.

Barely Believable Stories from the Annals of Medical History

21m

Thomas Morris shares medical curiosities from history, such as how one doctor conducted an appendectomy on himself.

The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Game

Mary Pilon recounts the surprisingly scandalous history of the board game "Monopoly."