It all started with a crazy idea to realise a hippie dream of building a “global consciousness”. The plan was to build a connected world, where everyone could access everyone and everything all the time; to overthrow the old gatekeepers and set

Introducing The Cows Are Mad

Oct 18th, 2023 3m 2s

The Covid-19 pandemic has been one of the weirdest things any of us has lived through. But there was another sickness that once stalked the nation and turned things very strange for a while.

Americast – Conspiracies: Inside the Rabbit Hole

Jun 2nd, 2023 36m 26s

Journalists and podcast hosts Jon Ronson and Gabriel Gatehouse join Marianna for a special episode of Americast delving deep down the rabbit hole of conspiracies. The trio talk about why America is a breeding ground for conspiracies, how to s

Introducing... A Very British Cult

Apr 5th, 2023 2m 11s

Catrin Nye gets a mysterious call that plunges her into an unsettling world of self-help and cults. What happens when a life coach takes over your life?In early 2019 Jeffrey Leigh-Jones from Portsmouth got a life coach. Someone to mentor him

Bad People present True Crime Crackers 2022 ft. The Coming Storm

Dec 21st, 2022 41m 20s

Dr Julia Shaw unwraps Bad People’s choice of true crime podcasts in 2022. She talks to Gabriel Gatehouse about his series The Coming Storm, which began as an investigation into the QAnon phenomenon and has evolved to explore major conspiracies

The Louis Theroux Interview

Nov 17th, 2022 54m 40s

Louis Theroux interviews Gabriel Gatehouse about the aftermath of the 2021 Capitol riots, QAnon, and the latest twists in the plot to break reality.Producer: Lucy Proctor

The Mid-Terms 2. The Regime

Nov 13th, 2022 55m 23s

When Gabriel Gatehouse is reporting on the aftermath of the presidential election in 2020, and trying to understand the motivations behind QAnon, he comes across people who believe another conspiracy theory. It’s about a laptop which Hunter Bid

The Mid-Terms 1. Groomers

Nov 6th, 2022 42m 26s

As America goes out to vote for the first time since the tumultuous aftermath of the 2020 election, Gabriel Gatehouse is back in the deep undergrowth of the US political scene, in a bid to understand where the dark energy underpinning the Janua

8. Epilogue

Feb 22nd, 2022 38m 50s

QAnon and the plot to break reality...Gabriel Gatehouse has something to confess. Throughout the making of the series he’s been developing his own conspiracy theory. It’s about a book, called The Sovereign Individual, written by two men who wer

7. Welcome to the Future

Jan 4th, 2022 37m 35s

QAnon and the plot to break reality...The Q Shaman, the man with the furs and horns who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, is in jail. The movement he came to symbolise appears defeated. But in a small South Carolina seaside town, ‘establi

6. The Usual Suspects

Jan 4th, 2022 42m 24s

QAnon and the plot to break reality...Donald Trump’s fantasy about a vast conspiracy to steal the 2020 election merges with the fantasy of QAnon, about a looming showdown against the deep state cabal of satanic paedophiles. After the storming o

5. Blowback

Jan 4th, 2022 35m 11s

QAnon and the plot to break reality...A British spy is hired to dig dirt on Donald Trump’s Russia connections. His sources tell him Trump is a Russian agent, a puppet of the Kremlin. America is gripped by this story. Half are convinced the Trum

4. Q Drops

Jan 4th, 2022 35m 49s

QAnon and the plot to break reality...In Oct 2017 Donald Trump says something weird in a room full of military figures: “Maybe this is the calm before the storm.” A few weeks later a poster on 4chan who calls himself Q starts to tell a crazy st

3. The Basement

2 Jan 4th, 2022 32m 12s

QAnon and the plot to break reality...A severely disabled boy from upstate New York is shocked when his online community of video game fans is flooded with porn. He gets sucked into a toxic world of mostly young men stuck in their parents’ base

2. Sex, Lies, and… a Videotape

Jan 4th, 2022 35m 24s

QAnon and the plot to break reality...Gabriel Gatehouse discovers a real conspiracy called The Arkansas Project. The aim is to inject lurid tales about the Clintons into the mainstream American press in the 1990s. These stories spin off in diff

1. The Dead Body

Jan 4th, 2022 33m 48s

QAnon and the plot to break reality...When a mob storms the Capitol in Washington DC, reporter and presenter Gabriel Gatehouse sees someone he recognises: a man draped in furs with horns on his head. He is known as the Q Shaman. Gabriel had met

Welcome to The Coming Storm

Dec 20th, 2021 2m 50s

QAnon and the plot to break reality.A year on from the Capitol Insurrection in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Gabriel Gatehouse journeys into the dark undergrowth of modern America. He's looking for the origins of the story that drove the cro