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
S2. How Things Fell Apart, with Jon Ronson and Adam Buxton
S2. Ep 8: Mikki’s Hero’s Journey
S2. Ep 7: You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll Be Happy
S2. Ep 6: A Hierarchy of Trauma
S2. Ep 5: Things Weren’t Going Back to Normal
S2. Ep 4: Spicy Brando
S2. Ep 3: Tonight’s the Night, Comrades
S2. Ep 2: We’re Coming After You, Honey
S2. Ep 1: The Most Mysterious Deaths
S1. Bonus Episode: Jon Ronson Live at Hay
S1. How Things Fell Apart, with Jon Ronson and Louis Theroux
S1. Ep 8: A Mock Slave Auction
S1. Ep 7: A Secret Room Behind a Fake Wall
S1. Ep 6: Many Different Lives
S1. Ep 5: A Scottish Jewish joke
S1. Ep 4: Believe the Children
S1. Ep 3: A Miracle
S1. Ep 2: Dirty Books
S1. Ep 1: 1000 Dolls
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