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Things Fell Apart
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... more

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Episodes

S2. 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... more

17 Jul 2024 · 27 minutes
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... more

13 Mar 2024 · 36 minutes
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... more

09 Jan 2024 · 37 minutes
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... more

09 Jan 2024 · 33 minutes
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... more

09 Jan 2024 · 33 minutes
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... more

09 Jan 2024 · 36 minutes
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... more

09 Jan 2024 · 34 minutes
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... more

09 Jan 2024 · 31 minutes
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... more

09 Jan 2024 · 33 minutes
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... more

09 Jan 2024 · 34 minutes
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... more

02 Jan 2024 · 3 minutes
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... more

05 Jul 2023 · 45 minutes
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... more

30 Mar 2022 · 43 minutes
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... more

25 Jan 2022 · 36 minutes
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... more

25 Jan 2022 · 32 minutes
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... more

25 Jan 2022 · 35 minutes
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... more

25 Jan 2022 · 33 minutes
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... more

25 Jan 2022 · 32 minutes
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... more

25 Jan 2022 · 33 minutes
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.... more

25 Jan 2022 · 31 minutes
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S1. Ep 5: A Scottish Jewish joke
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This is the story of the very first person to be publicly shamed because of something they did online. It’s 1988, the... more