Things Fell Apart

A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Tuesdays

Categories:

Society & Culture

21 Episodes

  1. S2. How Things Fell Apart, with Jon Ronson and Adam Buxton

    Published: 3/13/2024

  2. S2. Ep 8: Mikki’s Hero’s Journey

    Published: 1/9/2024

  3. S2. Ep 7: You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll Be Happy

    Published: 1/9/2024

  4. S2. Ep 6: A Hierarchy of Trauma

    Published: 1/9/2024

  5. S2. Ep 5: Things Weren’t Going Back to Normal

    Published: 1/9/2024

  6. S2. Ep 4: Spicy Brando

    Published: 1/9/2024

  7. S2. Ep 3: Tonight’s the Night, Comrades

    Published: 1/9/2024

  8. S2. Ep 2: We’re Coming After You, Honey

    Published: 1/9/2024

  9. S2. Ep 1: The Most Mysterious Deaths

    Published: 1/9/2024

  10. S2. Things Fell Apart is back

    Published: 1/2/2024

  11. S1. Bonus Episode: Jon Ronson Live at Hay

    Published: 7/5/2023

  12. S1. How Things Fell Apart, with Jon Ronson and Louis Theroux

    Published: 3/30/2022

  13. S1. Ep 8: A Mock Slave Auction

    Published: 1/25/2022

  14. S1. Ep 7: A Secret Room Behind a Fake Wall

    Published: 1/25/2022

  15. S1. Ep 6: Many Different Lives

    Published: 1/25/2022

  16. S1. Ep 5: A Scottish Jewish joke

    Published: 1/25/2022

  17. S1. Ep 4: Believe the Children

    Published: 1/25/2022

  18. S1. Ep 3: A Miracle

    Published: 1/25/2022

  19. S1. Ep 2: Dirty Books

    Published: 1/25/2022

  20. S1. Ep 1: 1000 Dolls

    Published: 1/25/2022

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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.In Jon Ronson’s award winning first series of Things Fell Apart, he explored the origin stories of these culture wars which have divided us so toxically for decades. But now new battle lines have been drawn. Many of them are linked by one extraordinary thing: they all snowballed within days of each other, just weeks into lockdown. And so in Season Two of Things Fell Apart, Jon Ronson uncovers intriguing and wholly unexpected origin stories, but this time of the culture wars that ignited during lockdown, and now dominate society.