1. The Dead Body
The Coming Storm
BBC
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
QAnon and the plot to break reality...
When a mob storms the Capitol in Washington DC, reporter and presenter Gabriel Gatehouse sees someone he recognises: a man draped in furs with horns on his head. He is known as the Q Shaman.
Gabriel had met him at a Trump rally in Arizona, ranting about a conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton and a cabal of satanic paedophiles plotting to steal the 2020 presidential election.
The search for the origins of this strange and twisted tale begins in 1993, when the suicide of a White House aide during Bill Clinton’s presidency reveals the first signs of a new information ecosystem that is starting to spill over into the mainstream. Myths about his murder proliferate on the early internet. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. In Arkansas a parallel reality is forming, in which the Clintons are a corrupt and murderous couple who will stop at nothing in their quest for power.
Producer: Lucy Proctor
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hi, I'm Gabriel Gatehouse, and this is the coming storm from BBC Radio 4 and world service. |
| 0:13.0 | Okay, so, yeah, we'll kick off with this image quickly. |
| 0:18.0 | So what we've got going on is a witch's Sabbath. |
| 0:21.0 | It's Halloween night at the height of the pandemic and I can't even remember why I decided to do this. |
| 0:27.6 | And the closer you look at this print the more weird stuff is going on. |
| 0:31.6 | But for whatever reason, on a whim I suppose, I signed up for a |
| 0:36.3 | virtual drawing class over Zoom. We've got a woman riding backwards on a goat, we've got |
| 0:41.6 | somebody kind of drumming a cauldron the title of the class was |
| 0:45.2 | witches drawing and storytelling and it was led by Louisa Maria McCormack I'm gonna |
| 0:52.2 | dive in and set a drawing exercise. So Louisa gets us copying out |
| 0:57.1 | details from this old woodcut and while I'm scribbling away she starts |
| 1:01.8 | telling this story. |
| 1:03.0 | A particularly nasty character called Heinrich Kramer. |
| 1:06.0 | About a man called Heinrich Kramer, who was a member of the Dominican Order. |
| 1:11.0 | A 15th century German priest who wrote this twisted book called the Malius Maleficarum and that roughly translates as the hammer of witches. |
| 1:19.0 | At this point, people in Europe believe in witches sure, but they're kind of seen as a normal fact of life a minor nuisance |
| 1:26.6 | No one bothers with them that much but then comes Kramer and his book |
| 1:32.4 | crazy kind of passages where he's saying |
| 1:35.6 | women become witches by sleeping with the devil and signing a pact on his anus |
| 1:39.7 | which is deprived men of his virile member and he goes on to you know very elaborately describe how |
| 1:46.5 | witches keep nests of penises in trees. It's pretty wild stuff. The book contains detailed and practical instructions on how to capture, torture, and |
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