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Things Fell Apart

Things Fell Apart


Things Fell Apart

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Length:
21 episodes
Language:
English
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Podcast

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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.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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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 ...

36 minutes
Mar 13, 2024

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 ...

34 minutes
Jan 09, 2024

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 ver...

33 minutes
Jan 09, 2024

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

How an American media polarized over Antifa led to an innocent family on a Twilight-the...

31 minutes
Jan 09, 2024

S2. Ep 4: Spicy Brando

How a disenfranchised young man, maddened by the strict lockdown laws in Michigan, join...

34 minutes
Jan 09, 2024

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

How a schism between a mother and her teenage daughter during lockdown contributed to G...

36 minutes
Jan 09, 2024

S2. Ep 6: A Hierarchy of Trauma

How a bestselling book about trauma - lockdown’s number one bestseller - helped the cul...

33 minutes
Jan 09, 2024

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...

33 minutes
Jan 09, 2024

S2. Ep 8: Mikki’s Hero’s Journey

How a former actor and model, burned by Hollywood and devastated by the death of his br...

37 minutes
Jan 09, 2024

S2. Things Fell Apart is back

Since Jon Ronson’s first series, new battle lines in the culture wars have been drawn. ...

3 minutes
Jan 02, 2024