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S2. Things Fell Apart is back

S2. Things Fell Apart is back

Things Fell Apart vor 2 Jahren

A series of strange, unexpected, human stories from the culture wars.

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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 May 2020, six weeks into lockdown.

Millions of us spent our days locked at home with only the
internet for company. People lost their jobs. Politicians told us
what to do. We lived in fear of an invisible enemy nobody
understood. This bizarre experience changed people
psychologically. People and institutions fell apart. The pandemic
– and lockdown – were to become dangerously fertile ground for
conspiratorial thinking, and for new frontlines in the culture
wars.

And so in Season Two of Things Fell Apart, Jon Ronson again
uncovers intriguing and wholly unexpected origin stories, but
this time of the culture wars that ignited during lockdown, and
now dominate society.

Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah Shebbeare
Original music by Phil Channell