Things Fell Apart
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Things Fell Apart
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...
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22 EpisodenS2. Bonus episode: 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....
S2. How Things Fell Apart, with Jon Ronson and 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 favo...
S2. Ep 8: 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 fla...
S2. Ep 7: 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 exp...
S2. Ep 6: 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 wo...
S2. Ep 5: 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 Flor...
S2. Ep 4: 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 a...
S2. Ep 3: 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 wo...
S2. Ep 2: 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 en...
S2. Ep 1: 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...
S2. Things Fell Apart is 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 al...
S1. Bonus Episode: 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 adventur...
S1. How Things Fell Apart, with Jon Ronson and 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....
S1. Ep 8: 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 con...
S1. Ep 7: 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 - ta...
S1. Ep 6: 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 fe...
S1. Ep 5: 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...
S1. Ep 4: 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 cul...
S1. Ep 3: 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. A...
S1. Ep 2: 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 a...
S1. Ep 1: 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...
S1. Introducing Things Fell Apart
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 everyd...