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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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How a young man with a novel idea for affordable accommodation, and an Oxford man with a plan for bus lanes, and a Danish woman writing a thought experiment about car rentals, unwittingly became hate figures for conspiracy theorists.
Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah Shebbeare Original music by Phil Channell
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0:36.0 | From BBC Radio 4, this is Things Fell Apart, season 2. |
0:45.0 | This story starts with four people who shouldn't have anything in common. |
0:49.0 | Besides them all being accomplished in their very different fields and them all wanting to play a part in a more |
0:54.9 | sustainable future. But in fact they have something quite startling in common. There's |
1:02.2 | Duncan. My name is Duncan Enright. I'm a councillor in |
1:06.2 | Oxford. There's James. I'm James Stollworth. I'm the co-founder of |
1:11.1 | Brownstone shared housing. |
1:12.8 | There's Ida. |
1:13.8 | My name is Ida Auchin. |
1:15.5 | I am a member of the Danish parliament. |
1:18.0 | And there's Joseph. |
1:19.2 | I'm Joseph Eun from Brooklyn Bugs and I am an edible insect ambassador. |
1:24.0 | Until recently, Duncan was responsible for improving Oxford's traffic flow strategy. |
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