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Things Fell Apart

S2. How Things Fell Apart, with Jon Ronson and Adam Buxton

Things Fell Apart

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Jon Ronson's friend and fellow podcaster Adam Buxton chat about the latest season of Things Fell Apart. They discuss their favourite moments from the show and how to best navigate the culture wars, all while also chatting about lockdown, fatherhood, social anxiety and how a rough time at Cardiff High School made Jon Ronson a better journalist.

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

Hello, this is Adam Buxton, comedian, writer and host of the Adam Buxton

0:40.1

Podcast.

0:41.1

I first met John in the late 90s when myself and Joe Cornish made our

0:46.4

DIY comedy TV show the Adam and Joe show out of the same Brixton based

0:51.4

production company that also produced a late night

0:54.4

discussion program hosted by John called For the Love of in which he and his

0:59.7

guests explored topics that were then considered fringe, ghosts, crypto zoology, and

1:07.6

conspiracies about the moon landings and the death of Princess Diana to name a couple and for a while John became

1:15.8

one of those people in the media who reported from the fringes of culture spending

1:21.9

time with people who held beliefs most of us would consider esoteric,

1:26.6

and his approach was often quirky.

1:31.2

In the mid-2000s, his radio foreshow John Ronson On featured serious stories alongside

1:37.8

funny observations about the weirdness of everyday life. I loved it. That was the first sort of John Ronson

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