The rise of social media and the idea of lessly raging culture wars has made public discourse a much noisier conversation. Our guest to day is the acclaimed writer and podcaster john ronson, whose curiosity as to how all this came about led him to creating a hit radio and podcast series about it. For this discussion, we invited fellow cultural luminary, the comedian and writer, david bedeal, to join john in conversation.
Whether it's arguing over cancel culture, mask-wearing or what to do with statues, the culture wars now seem to be a constantly reappearing flashpoint in public discourse. Acclaimed writer and podcaster Jon Ronson was curious to learn how this phenomenon had come about and has spent the last year creating the hit radio and podcast series, Things Fell Apart, for BBC Radio 4, exploring the history of the culture wars. For this discussion Jon is joined in conversation by comedian and writer David Baddiel to explore the origin stories of the culture wars and where they might be headed next.
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