Packing a punch

摘要

After 60 hours of little sleep, tending crying twins and trying to hold down a job, Michael is tense and becoming a bit paranoid.rnLuckily for this seemingly unenviable fellow, he is in fact taking part in a TV experiment. He is Michael Portillo, a former UK government minister, and the twins are lifelike dolls, built to be as inconsolable as real-life babies.rnThe programme is part of a BBC2 season on that perennially fascinating subject, violence. Portillo explores the extent to which each of us has the capacity for violent behaviour, by way of a Bolivian "mutual conflict festival", interviews with a football thug and a boy soldier, and a restaging of Stanley Milgram's "obedience" experiments of the 1960s.