4. The Jump
The Coming Storm
BBC
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In the summer of 2023 a small budget thriller becomes a smash hit. Sound of Freedom is based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former officer at the Department for Homeland Security, who spent years undercover busting child sex trafficking rings before he quit and set up his own organisation.
The film was linked to QAnon, the conspiracy theory about a satanic cabal of paedophiles secretly running America. Q, the anonymous figure who posted cryptic messages in online forums, isn’t mentioned in the film. He’s stopped posting and the movement has withered. But Q’s ideas have seeped into the mainstream. Now they’ve merged with a bigger story about dark forces that have captured the institutions of America - the Federal Reserve, the FBI, and…. Hollywood.
Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham
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Opening sequence includes sound from from:
Sound of Freedom, Official Trailer, Angel Studios Jim Caviezel on Bannon’s War Room, Rumble Woke Hollywood FURIOUS Over Sound Of Freedom HUGE Box Office Success! | They CAN'T STOP This Movie! Ryan Kinel, Youtube Controversial movie becomes a surprise summer hit, CNN How 'Sound of Freedom,' controversial child sex trafficking film, became a hit in theaters, USA today
O.U.R documentary audio from The Abolitionists, FletChet Entertainment
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome back. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Gabriel Gatehouse, and this is Series 2 of The Coming Storm from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:14.0 | Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts, |
| 0:18.0 | but if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episodes first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:27.3 | So this episode it's a bit of a throwback. |
| 0:30.8 | Remember QAnon, that weird conspiracy theory about satanic pedophiles secretly running America? |
| 0:37.0 | I know, I know we did that in the last series. |
| 0:40.0 | Qenon, the movement, is pretty much dead now. |
| 0:44.0 | But also, it's not. |
| 0:46.0 | Because Kewen on the idea, it's not fringe anymore. |
| 0:51.0 | It's kind of everywhere. Summer's unlikely blockbuster. |
| 0:58.0 | It's the summer of 2023 and something weird is happening in cinemas. |
| 1:02.8 | But have you heard of Sound of Freedom? |
| 1:05.8 | Sound of Freedom, a small budget thriller is taking on The Big Beasts of Hollywood. |
| 1:11.1 | Less than two weeks, the film has earned 45.7 million dollars. |
| 1:15.6 | What is going on at the box office? |
| 1:18.0 | These numbers are crazy. |
| 1:19.8 | How cool is that? |
| 1:21.3 | Your movie beat Indiana Jones. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, I grew up on Indiana Jones. |
| 1:25.0 | How could more people... |
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