Jon Ronson Turns Focus To Covid Conspiracies In Second Season Of Hit ‘Things Fell Apart’ Podcast

Max Goldbart
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Jon Ronson has forged a second series of his Things Fell Apart podcast, this time around focusing on conspiracy theories in the Covid 19 era.

The second season of the hit BBC Sounds show will launch next week, with eight stories focusing on “new battle lines in the culture wars which ignited during lockdown.”

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“From covid conspiracies and Antifa hysteria, to racial and gender identity politics, free speech and protests against lockdown that spiralled out of control,” adds the logline.

Ronson said: “Recent months have shown that we’re living in post truth times where all sorts of lies are allowed to flourish for all sorts of reasons, and many people are guilty of that from across the political spectrum. What the podcast is about in the end is that we have to hold on to truth like driftwood or else we’ll drown.”

Things Fell Apart Season 1 won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award, telling stories including about Tammy Faye and the first incidence of online public shaming. The second season is available ad-free for BBC Podcasts premium subscribers in the U.S.

Ronson is a journalist and filmmaker who wrote The Men Who Stare At Goats, which was turned into the George Clooney-fronted movie. Other recent projects include The Debutante about a high-society woman who joined a Neo-Nazi movement, while he also featured on Louis Theroux’s podcast.

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