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Louis Theroux chats to Jon Ronson about his recent podcast series, Things Fell Apart.

Louis Theroux interviews Jon Ronson on the making of Things Fell Apart, Strange Tales from the Culture Wars.

In this bonus episode of Things Fell Apart, Jon Ronson's friend and fellow documentary maker Louis Theroux asks him all about how he made the series. They take a deep dive into Culture Wars battles and explore Jon's storytelling methods, all while chatting about Jon's broken arm, putting old rivalries to bed, and how they deal with difficult interviewees when they both hate conflict. 

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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.

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