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Things Fell Apart

S2. Ep 4: Spicy Brando

Things Fell Apart

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How a disenfranchised young man, maddened by the strict lockdown laws in Michigan, joined a club of like-minded men and suddenly found himself under arrest for the most unlikely and horrific crime.

Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah Shebbeare Original music by Phil Channell

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and maybe it's when I had a hand in.

0:04.0

I'm Tammy Walker and I produce podcasts for the BBC.

0:08.0

My role is to give new and diverse creators a voice with the opportunity to build a career.

0:12.0

That's the thing I love about podcasts.

0:14.4

You start with just a good idea, but then you have the space to see where it goes.

0:18.4

And doing that at the BBC means we can really run with the best stories

0:21.9

while developing the most unique audio talent.

0:24.8

So if you like what you hear, why not check out the huge range of podcast we've got on BBC Sounds.

0:31.6

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0:36.0

From BBC Radio 4, this is Things Fell Apart, season 2. In 19 as the Spanish flu coursed through a world still broken by the great war.

0:52.4

Yates wrote his poem, The Second Coming.

0:57.4

Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.

1:00.7

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

1:07.0

A hundred years later and we were hit by our own pandemic forcing us into lockdown. Suddenly

1:16.8

politicians were curtailing our freedoms in ways that most of us had never known.

1:27.1

And so a new culture war erupted between safety and freedom, those who trusted science and those suspicious of government control.

1:37.6

This story is about a young man who didn't trust authority and because of it became embroiled in one of lockdown's most bizarre and shocking incidents.

1:43.4

Tonight, our target date investigators zero in on the timeline of terror.

1:50.6

Across the state, a state of shock. It's just not imaginable. It's a shocking

1:56.1

story, but the details of that story are even worse than that. They are beyond

2:00.6

belief. We lived in, you know, kind of like a lower middle class type of environment. It was kind of in a rural area.

2:17.5

This is Brandon Kosserta 35 from Michigan.

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