Marianna in Conspiracyland 1: 8. The Science Of Conspiracy
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BBC
2.8 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Could people in the UK conspiracy theory movement ever become violent? Returning to the UK, BBC disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring meets possibly the only person outside of the movement who has read as much of the Light as her: political scientist at King’s College London Dr Rod Dacombe. What insights will he have for Marianna from his years studying The Light and the conspiracy theory movement in the UK?
Host: Marianna Spring Producers: Philip Marzouk and Olivia Lace-Evans Producer for BBC Radio 4 podcasts: Nathan Jones Technical Producer: Tom Brignell and Neva Missirian 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 | A group of men ran in with machetes. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Livy Haydock, and from BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live, |
| 0:08.6 | this is gangster, the story of Georgie Pye. |
| 0:13.2 | The scene of the killing near a Chinese bookshop is being flooded with detectives. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the world of the triads. |
| 0:19.6 | If the triads are coming out of you, you're done. |
| 0:21.5 | Where loyalty is sworn in blood. |
| 0:24.8 | Gangster. |
| 0:25.8 | The story of Georgie Pye. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello. Hi, nice to meet you. |
| 0:38.3 | Hi, speak you too. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm in the centre of London meeting someone who is perhaps even more intrigued by the light than me. |
| 0:45.3 | His name is Dr Rod Daycomb, and I meet him at the campus of King's College. |
| 0:51.3 | He's a political scientist, and as he shows me around the grounds, it's clear he's a man |
| 0:56.1 | with tons of enthusiasm. |
| 0:57.8 | There's so many cool things. We have our own abandoned tube section. That is so cool. |
| 1:02.1 | It used to be a shooting range down there on the platform. My favourite place to teach is the |
| 1:06.8 | anatomy theatre. It's on like the seventh floor of that building. Oh my gosh. And there's a |
| 1:10.4 | dumb weight that goes down to the basement. That enthusiasm doesn't just apply to historical |
| 1:14.5 | quirks, but one of his primary research interests, conspiracy theories and their impact on democracy, |
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