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Things Fell Apart

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Things Fell Apart: S1. Ep 8: A Mock Slave Auction

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Strange tales from the culture wars with Jon Ronson.

Jon Ronson is back with a new season of jaw dropping, unexpected human stories from the history of the culture wars. This time - those that engulfed us during lockdown.

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.

S1. Ep 8: A Mock Slave Auction

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Strange tales from the culture wars by Jon Ronson.

A series of strange, unexpected human stories from the history of the culture wars.

An incident of racist bullying on Snapchat is currently tearing apart a small town on a lake in Michigan. As the ripples spread, practically every conflict we’ve encountered throughout our series rears its head.

Presented by Jon Ronson
Produced by Sarah Shebbeare
Assistant Producer Sam Peach
Music composed by Phil Channell

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