6. Kompromat
The Coming Storm
BBC
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In series one of this podcast we spent months investigating QAnon, a crazy conspiracy theory involving an elite cabal of paedophiles and child sex traffickers. And we never really grappled with… this actual convicted paedophile and sex trafficker, who was at the centre of a network of global financial cultural and political elites.
But the story of Jeffrey Epstein is more than a kernel of truth at the heart of Qanon. It connects the idea of a cabal of elite paedophiles to the wider conspiracy theory we’re looking into for series two, one that millions of Americans believe: that democracy is a facade, and that the institutions of America, from politics to finance, from Hollywood to the secret intelligence agencies, are controlled by hidden hands.
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
CREDITS: Stephen Hawking clip from goal.cast, TikTok
Jeffrey Epstein reporting in Florida, 2008-2011 from WPBF, Palm Beach Post, WBTV, Miami Herald
G Edward Griffin clip from The Subversion Factor, Knowledge 2020 Media, 1983
Gamestop archive from CNBC
Ian Carrol's videos: Cancelthisclothingco on TikTok
Peter Thiel on The Joe Rogan Experience
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| 0:00.0 | Was Amber Lynn really a wicked queen? |
| 0:04.4 | People feared women who were smart. |
| 0:06.8 | M flay girl. |
| 0:08.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:09.0 | What about resputing? |
| 0:10.4 | A miraculous mystic or a die-hard deviant. I think there's some bad stuff in there. I do weirdly respect him. |
| 0:17.0 | On evil genius, we are the judges of that. |
| 0:20.0 | Join me, Russell Kane and a host of comedians as we put more historical legends under scrutiny to find out if they're evil or genius. |
| 0:32.0 | Evil genius listen on BBC sounds. Evil Genius. |
| 0:33.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.0 | Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello Welcome back. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Gabriel Gatehouse and this is Series 2 of The Coming Storm from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:49.2 | Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts, but if you're in the UK, you can listen to the |
| 0:55.2 | latest episodes first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:58.1 | There's this thing in physics. It's called The Theory of Everything. It's one of the |
| 1:08.4 | elusive holy grails of science, a single unified theory that connects what we know about the smallest things |
| 1:15.6 | in the universe, subatomic particles, to the biggest galaxies, space, and time itself. It's the search for the ultimate truth. Stephen Hawking was |
| 1:27.3 | looking for it. He said, There's nothing like the Eureka moment of discovering something that no one knew before. |
| 1:35.0 | I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer. |
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