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Things Fell Apart
BBC Radio 4
If you've ever yelled at someone on social media about, say, cancel culture or mask-wearing, then you are a soldier in the culture wars - those everyday battles for dominance between conflicting values. The acclaimed writer and podcaster Jon Ronson has seen friends swallowed up in them to the extent that it's ruined their lives. Jon was curious to learn how things fell apart, and so he went back into …
Episodes
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Things Fell Apart · Jul 17, 2024
An Audience with Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson’s second season of unexpected human stories from the culture wars focused on the divisions that erupted in the wake of the Covid lockdown. It was a number 1 hit podcast and received …
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Things Fell Apart · Mar 13, 2024
How Things Fell Apart with Adam Buxton
In this bonus episode, Jon Ronson's friend and fellow podcaster Adam Buxton chat about the latest season of Things Fell Apart. They discuss their favourite moments from the show and how to best navigate …
36:46Things Fell Apart · Jan 9, 2024
Mikki’s Hero’s Journey
How a former actor and model, burned by Hollywood and devastated by the death of his brother, has become an important culture warrior, fueling the flames of every story we tell this season.Written and …
37:09Things Fell Apart · Jan 9, 2024
You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll Be Happy
How a young man with a novel idea for affordable accommodation, and an Oxford man with a plan for bus lanes, and a Danish woman writing a thought experiment about car rentals, unwittingly became …
33:24Things Fell Apart · Jan 9, 2024
A Hierarchy of Trauma
How a bestselling book about trauma - lockdown’s number one bestseller - helped the culture war over free speech burst out of colleges and into the workplace. A shift some people pejoratively call the …
33:08Things Fell Apart · Jan 9, 2024
Things Weren’t Going Back to Normal
How a schism between a mother and her teenage daughter during lockdown contributed to Governor Ron DeSantis enacting new and far-reaching laws in Florida.Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah Shebbeare Original …
36:29Things Fell Apart · Jan 9, 2024
Spicy Brando
How a disenfranchised young man, maddened by the strict lockdown laws in Michigan, joined a club of like-minded men and suddenly found himself under arrest for the most unlikely and horrific crime. Written and …
34:55Things Fell Apart · Jan 9, 2024
Tonight’s the Night, Comrades
How an American media polarized over Antifa led to an innocent family on a Twilight-themed lockdown-escaping camping trip getting barricaded in the woods by armed, hostile townspeople.Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by …
31:06Things Fell Apart · Jan 9, 2024
We’re Coming After You, Honey
How a chance encounter in a yacht club in the early 2000s between a bartender and a very wealthy couple with a daughter sick with a mystery disease ended with the creation of the …
33:59Things Fell Apart · Jan 9, 2024
The Most Mysterious Deaths
How the mysterious deaths of 32 black sex workers in Miami in the 1980s led to a whole new (and spurious) mental health diagnosis, ending with another murder that occurred during the height of …
34:29Things Fell Apart · Jan 2, 2024
Welcome Back
Since Jon Ronson’s first series, new battle lines in the culture wars have been drawn. And many of them are linked by one extraordinary thing: they all snowballed within days of each other, in …
3:12Things Fell Apart · Jul 5, 2023
Bonus: Jon Ronson, Live at Hay
In front of a live audience at the Hay Festival 2023 in Wales, Jon Ronson and journalist and author Dolly Alderton discuss Jon’s multifarious adventures in nonfiction, and all things Culture Wars, including an …
45:01Things Fell Apart · Mar 30, 2022
How Things Fell Apart with Louis Theroux
In this bonus episode of Things Fell Apart, Jon Ronson's friend and fellow documentary maker Louis Theroux asks him all about how he made the series. They take a deep dive into Culture Wars …
43:50Things Fell Apart · Jan 25, 2022
A Mock Slave Auction
An incident of racist bullying on Snapchat is currently tearing apart a small town on a lake in Michigan. As the ripples spread, practically every conflict we’ve encountered throughout our series rears its head.Presented …
36:15Things Fell Apart · Jan 25, 2022
A Secret Room Behind a Fake Wall
It’s 2017. Late one night after a party a Hollywood actor plays a prank on a friend. But the prank backfires terribly and the ripples are seismic - taking us inside Donald Trump’s White …
32:44Things Fell Apart · Jan 25, 2022
Many Different Lives
This story is about how the unique experiences of a little girl growing up unconventionally in America in the 1970s seismically changed the face of feminism in the 90s and beyond. It's a story …
35:03Things Fell Apart · Jan 25, 2022
A Scottish Jewish Joke
This is the story of the very first person to be publicly shamed because of something they did online. It’s 1988, the internet exists only in its most nascent form, and a software designer, …
33:07Things Fell Apart · Jan 25, 2022
Believe the Children
In the mid 1980s a new conspiracy theory proliferates across America - that cabals of Satanists are secretly preying on children and polluting the culture. This ‘Satanic panic’ is a madness with bizarre and …
32:17Things Fell Apart · Jan 25, 2022
A Miracle
It’s the early 1980s and a hugely popular television evangelist is having a crisis of conscience. She wants Christian evangelism to be less bigoted. And so, to the horror of her peers, she invites …
33:12Things Fell Apart · Jan 25, 2022
Dirty Books
1974. A church minister's wife in West Virginia learns of a brand new curriculum being introduced into her children's school. So she decides to read all 325 new textbooks herself. What she discovers horrifies …
31:49Things Fell Apart · Jan 25, 2022
1000 Dolls
It's the early 1970s. Frank Schaeffer is an American kid living in the Swiss Alps – the son of an influential Christian art historian - who daydreams of one day making Hollywood films. But …
31:53Things Fell Apart · Jan 5, 2022
Trailer
If you've ever yelled at someone on social media about, say, cancel culture or mask-wearing, then you are a soldier in the culture wars - those everyday battles for dominance between conflicting values. The …
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