An Audience with Jon Ronson

Things Fell Apart

BBC

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jon Ronson’s second season of unexpected human stories from the culture wars focused on the divisions that erupted in the wake of the Covid lockdown. It was a number 1 hit podcast and received five star reviews. In a fun, free-flowing live discussion from the Hay Festival in Wales, Jon turns the tables on himself and asks his audience to ask him anything they like.

Series Producer: Sarah Shebbeare

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0:00.0	He is Brian Cox.
0:02.8	Hello.
0:03.3	And he understands science.
0:05.4	I'm Robin Ince and I don't understand it quite so much.
0:09.0	Could he tell us something about the nature of matter?
0:11.3	Nope.
0:12.0	Okay, good.
0:13.2	Together we'll be joined by a collection of experts and non-expert guests.
0:18.6	What's going on?
0:19.8	Don't you know.
0:21.6	Taking a look at some of the most wonderful things
0:24.4	in the scientific world.
0:25.9	Science with Funny Bits, The Infinite Monkey Cage
0:29.3	on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. B.C. Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:37.0	Hello.
1:00.1	Hello. Hello, I'm John Ronson. Welcome to a bonus episode of Things Fell Apart. So usually we make the season 8 stories you know very kind of highly produced like little dole houses and then we'll do a couple of bonus episodes and usually
1:05.4	I'm being interviewed by somebody it's been Louis Thruh, Adam Buxton and
1:11.2	Dolly Alderton all, but this time we thought we would do something different
1:16.6	and you will be the interview. So you can just please ask me anything you like, anything
1:20.8	at all, nothing's off grounds, anything. There's a gentleman over there.
1:27.8	Hello. Hi, yeah. What's your favorite dinosaur? What's my favorite dinosaur? No, twopart question sorry forget the dinosaur one. Velasiraptor
1:37.3	Is that an actual dinosaur did I just?
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