Marianna in Conspiracyland 1: 2. Down The Rabbit Hole
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BBC
4.0 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
What do those in the movement believe? And why? BBC disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring continues her investigation into Totnes’ conspiracy theory movement after hearing about one of its prominent members: an artist named Jason Liosatos. Meeting him in his gallery she learns more about some of his beliefs and what that indicates about the movement.
Host: Marianna Spring Producers: Philip Marzouk and Olivia Lace-Evans Producer for BBC Radio 4 podcasts: Nathan Jones Technical Producer: Alex Portfelix Senior news editor: Sam Bonham Commissioner: Rhian Roberts
New episodes released every few days. If you're in the UK, listen to the whole series first on BBC Sounds bbc.in/42x5sO5
And please get in touch with Marianna by emailing at: mariannainconspiracyland@bbc.co.uk.
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| 0:00.0 | Savings, credit cards, car finance, reclaiming, insurance, investing, power of attorney, decision, |
| 0:06.2 | indecision, analysis, paralysis. |
| 0:09.4 | Don't panic. |
| 0:10.4 | The Martin Lewis podcast is twice weekly, helping you navigate our complex consumer world. |
| 0:15.2 | I'll walk you through a big money saving topic step by step. |
| 0:18.4 | Then in question time, you set the agenda and ask whatever's on your mind. |
| 0:22.5 | Would you rather be locked in an empty shopping centre with a thousand snakes or just one gorilla? |
| 0:27.6 | Within reason. |
| 0:28.6 | The Martin Lewis podcast, listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.9 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:37.5 | You're about to listen to Mariana in Conspiracy Land with me, Mariana Spring. |
| 0:43.2 | New episodes will be released weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:47.3 | But if you're in the UK, the whole series is available right now. |
| 0:51.0 | First, on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:54.0 | The system's rotten at the core. It's a Frankenstein's monster system that's perpetuating |
| 1:00.4 | slavery. It should be crashed to its knees. It should be deleted. |
| 1:05.5 | I'm watching a video entitled My Big Rant About the Cost of Living and Parasitic Government. |
| 1:11.1 | A man with a sweptback ponytail is talking from a makeshift studio, filmed against a white, |
| 1:16.7 | wooden background. He's furious. |
| 1:19.8 | The system's horrible. And the system is slavery. That's what it is. Don't get angry. |
| 1:28.3 | You shouldn't get bloody angry. |
| 1:30.7 | It's not the only video on his website. |
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