Episodes
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| The Louis Theroux Interview | 20221124 | Gabriel Gatehouse in conversation with Louis Theroux. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. | |||
| The Mid-terms 1. Groomers | 20221106 | 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 January 6 assault on the Capitol is going now. Some of the energy from the QAnon conspiracy theory about a satanic cabal of paedophiles is morphing into a grassroots political movement against groomers' - the idea that LGBTQI+ sex educators and trans healthcare advocates are indoctrinating young people into a sexualised culture. The battleground is America's school boards and the prize could be a galvanised Republican base with a new crusade. At a conference in Miami of thinkers shaping the future ideas of the right, Gabriel finds the issue top of the agenda. And across the country, a slate of candidates linked to QAnon is running for office - how will they fare? Producer: Lucy Proctor A new diabolical enemy emerges. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. | |||
| The Mid-terms 2. The Regime | 20221113 | 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 Biden, the son of the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, had supposedly left in a computer repair shop in Delaware. The laptop allegedly contains damning information about the Biden family. Gabriel thinks it's fake news and ignores it at the time. But that is a mistake. The laptop turns out to be real, even if some of the claims about its contents are not. Silicon Valley and perhaps even the FBI seem to have tried to suppress the story, while the mainstream media refused to run it. For some, it is now powerful evidence that the Biden administration, and the entire establishment, is a regime that must be toppled. Producer: Lucy Proctor A laptop reveals its secrets. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. | |||
| The Mid-terms 2: The Regime: - Part 2 | 20221120 | The real story on the laptop. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. | |||
| 01 | S2: Inauguration - Bonus Episode | 20250119 | 20250120 (R4) |  Over two series this podcast has followed a cast of characters who propelled Trump into the White House – twice. Many of them are now likely to take power and inject their reality-bending world views into America's health, security and intelligence infrastructure. Who are they and what do they believe? There's Kash Patel, Trump's pick for FBI director. He was deeply embedded in the Russiagate saga. Several bit-part players in our episodes who've now been promised influence. Elon Musk of course. And then there's Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Son of a murdered Senator, nephew of a murdered president, he believes many of America's three-letter agencies represent a threat to national health and security. Presenter: Gabriel Gatehouse Producer: Lucy Proctor The storm breaks as Donald Trump returns. America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. Gabriel Gatehouse looks at the characters expected to gain power in Trump's new administration - including RFK Jr. | |
| 02 | S2: 1. The Yogi | 20240911 | America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. As America heads into a presidential election, Gabriel Gatehouse dives back into the labyrinthine rabbit warren of American conspiracy culture. Whilst liberals across the world worry about a possible return of Donald Trump, millions of Americans are convinced that their democracy has already been highjacked - by a sinister Deep State cabal. How did this happen? And who is behind it? Gabriel meets a January 6 rioter running for office who sees his detention as political imprisonment and goes on the trail of a Californian yogi who stormed the Capitol and then fell even deeper down the rabbit hole. New episodes available on Wednesdays. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham CREDITS: Audio from January 6 from A Reporter's Video from Inside the Capitol Siege, Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker Audio of Ivan Raiklin from @MattStruck on X News report of Alan Hostetter's first protest from Former La Habra police chief sentenced for role in Jan. 6 attack on US Capitol, KCAL News News report of Alan Hostetter's first protest from PROTEST - Coronavirus Quarantine/Lockdown Protests - The Next Thing? (San Clemente, CA), Local Story TV Audio of ‘fencegate' from OC Hawk Audio of protests outside Katrina Foley's home from @inminivanhell, X Alan Hostetter outside the Supreme Court from Virginia Women for Trump rally at Supreme Court, NTD / Patria De Marti Alan Hostetter's video on ‘fencegate' from Bitchute A Jan 6 rioter glimpses the matrix. Gabriel Gatehouse follows his journey. A Jan 6 rioter glimpses the matrix. Gabriel Gatehouse follows his journey. America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. | ||
| 03 | S2: 2. Flight 007 | 20240910 | 20240918 (R4) | America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. As Gabriel Gatehouse travels around America in the run-up to the 2024 Presidential election, he keeps hearing about the Federal Reserve. Many people think the Fed is a central cog in a grand conspiracy to impose a sinister ‘New World Order' and control the supply of money. These dark fears about the Federal Reserve are bound up with the fear of communism. And they go back to the Cold War - to a fringe group called The John Birch Society, and one of its leaders, Congressman Larry McDonald, who lived his life as if in the crosshairs of a terrifying communist conspiracy. Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham CREDITS: U.S. Stock Market Crash - 1929 Today in History 29 Oct 16, AP Archive Clips of Larry McDonald and Robert Welch from Education Is the Key (by Larry McDonald) 1980, John Birch Society and 1958 Robert Welch Speech - Insiders Plan To Take Over America (copyright unknown) Audio of G Edward Griffin presentation from The Creature From Jekyll Island (by G. Edward Griffin), recorded 1994 Western Goals film, The Subversion Factor, Knowledge 2020 Media, 1983 At the height of the Cold War a charismatic Congressman meets a strange death. At the height of the Cold War a Congressman meets a strange death. America through the looking glass – follow Gabriel Gatehouse into a world where nothing is as it seems. | |
| 04 | S2: 3. The Enemy Within | 20240918 | 20240925 (R4) | A prank about pizza is the moment members of the Republican Party in Idaho realise the conspiratorial John Birch Society has burrowed into mainstream politics. These people are dredging up ideas from the past, about communist plots and hidden hands, and repurposing them for the 21st Century. An alliance is forming in the Pacific Northwest state between the John Birchers and another group of people who never trusted the federal government of America. Gabriel Gatehouse meets the leader of The Real 3%'ers of Idaho, anti-government activists who are part of the militia movement. He hears how a stand-off in the desert a decade ago between government bureaucrats and cowboys became a defining moment, for those who don't trust the institutions of the state, and also for the FBI, as everyone looks at the January 6 Capitol riot as evidence of the enemy within. Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham Credits: Dorothy Moon speaking at the Kootenai County Republican Women Federated's fundraiser Idaho Freedom Foundation Investigation by KTVB Dorothy Moon introducing Eric Parker of Hailey during the Idaho House session on Jan. 16, 2018. Leaked bodycam footage of the Bundy Ranch stand-off fromThe Pete Santilli Show, Rumble - original owner unknown An alliance forms in Idaho between cowboys, militiamen and a new kind of Republican. America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. An alliance forms in Idaho between cowboys, militiamen and a new kind of Republican. Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. | |
| 05 | S2: 4. The Jump | 20240925 | 20241002 (R4) | In the summer of 2023 a small budget thriller becomes a smash hit. Sound of Freedom is based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former officer at the Department for Homeland Security, who spent years undercover busting child sex trafficking rings before he quit and set up his own organisation. The film was linked to QAnon, the conspiracy theory about a satanic cabal of paedophiles secretly running America. Q, the anonymous figure who posted cryptic messages in online forums, isn't mentioned in the film. He's stopped posting and the movement has withered. But Q's ideas have seeped into the mainstream. Now they've merged with a bigger story about dark forces that have captured the institutions of America - the Federal Reserve, the FBI, and - Hollywood. Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham Credits: Opening sequence includes sound from from: Sound of Freedom, Official Trailer, Angel Studios Jim Caviezel on Bannon's War Room, Rumble Woke Hollywood FURIOUS Over Sound Of Freedom HUGE Box Office Success! They CAN'T STOP This Movie! Ryan Kinel, Youtube Controversial movie becomes a surprise summer hit, CNN How 'Sound of Freedom,' controversial child sex trafficking film, became a hit in theaters, USA today O.U.R documentary audio from The Abolitionists, FletChet Entertainment A blockbuster film takes on the big beasts of Hollywood. America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. A blockbuster film takes on the big beasts of Hollywood - but Gabriel Gatehouse finds that all is not as it seems. | |
| 06 | 2: 5. The Photocopier | 20241002 | 20241009 (R4) | Gabriel Gatehouse is on holiday with his family when he gets an invitation to an exclusive party in New York City from a group called Praxis. The tech start-up plans to create a new sovereign state somewhere on the Mediterranean coast, part of a new tech movement called ‘the network state'. The idea is that these statelets, governed not by a giant state bureaucracy but on the blockchain, will eventually replace the nation state. Gabriel meets crypto cowboys cheering on the end of democracy and tech bros hoping to replace the dollar with meme coins. It looks like kids playing around, larping as revolutionaries. But kids playing around with memes gave rise to Pizzagate, Qanon and Jan 6 - Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham Crypto cowboys plan a meme nation. America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. Crypto cowboys plan a meme nation. Gabriel Gatehouse attends one of their parties. | |
| 06 | S2: 5. The Photocopier | 20241002 | 20241009 (R4) | Gabriel Gatehouse is on holiday with his family when he gets an invitation to an exclusive party in New York City from a group called Praxis. The tech start-up plans to create a new sovereign state somewhere on the Mediterranean coast, part of a new tech movement called ‘the network state'. The idea is that these statelets, governed not by a giant state bureaucracy but on the blockchain, will eventually replace the nation state. Gabriel meets crypto cowboys cheering on the end of democracy and tech bros hoping to replace the dollar with meme coins. It looks like kids playing around, larping as revolutionaries. But kids playing around with memes gave rise to Pizzagate, Qanon and Jan 6 - Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham CREDITS: The Network State Conference 2023 - Livestream, The Network State Podcast, Youtube JD Vance: The US is being run by 'childless cat ladies', Fox News EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING, Praxis_tv, Youtube Crypto cowboys plan a meme nation. America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. Crypto cowboys plan a meme nation. Gabriel Gatehouse attends one of their parties. | |
| 07 | S2: 6. Kompromat | 20241009 | 20241016 (R4) | In series one of this podcast we spent months investigating QAnon, a crazy conspiracy theory involving an elite cabal of paedophiles and child sex traffickers. And we never really grappled with - this actual convicted paedophile and sex trafficker, who was at the centre of a network of global financial cultural and political elites. But the story of Jeffrey Epstein is more than a kernel of truth at the heart of Qanon. It connects the idea of a cabal of elite paedophiles to the wider conspiracy theory we're looking into for series two, one that millions of Americans believe: that democracy is a facade, and that the institutions of America, from politics to finance, from Hollywood to the secret intelligence agencies, are controlled by hidden hands. Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham CREDITS: Stephen Hawking clip from goal.cast, TikTok Jeffrey Epstein reporting in Florida, 2008-2011 from WPBF, Palm Beach Post, WBTV, Miami Herald G Edward Griffin clip from The Subversion Factor, Knowledge 2020 Media, 1983 Gamestop archive from CNBC Ian Carrol's videos: Cancelthisclothingco on TikTok Peter Thiel on The Joe Rogan Experience Jeffrey Epstein and the unified conspiracy theory of everything. America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. Jeffrey Epstein and the unified conspiracy theory of everything. Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. | |
| 07 | S2: Episode 6 | 20241009 | 20241016 (R4) | America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. | |
| 08 | S2: 7. Wonderland | 20241016 | 20241023 (R4) | In the 1990s a group of futurist thinkers meet on one of the world's first email lists. The Extropians imagine a world of augmented human bodies, nanotechnology, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence. Now, some of the thinkers on that email list are turning that AI future into a reality. But others are now worried - what if the AI ends up in charge of us all? As we head into an epochal shift for humanity, questions about democracy and tyranny run through the debates about how fast or slow to move forward. Because we don't want to end up living in the Matrix - Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham CREDITS: Timothy Leary 1992 half-hour appearance with cable TV host Skip E Lowe, copyright unknown, Alan Eichler, YouTube After all, the body is an extension of fashion, Natasha Vita More, YouTube At the end of the rabbit hole is\u2026 a machine. America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. At the end of the rabbit hole is - a machine. Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. | |
| 09 | S2: 7. Wonderland | 20241016 | 20241023 (R4) | In the 1990s a group of futurist thinkers meet on one of the world's first email lists. The Extropians imagine a world of augmented human bodies, nanotechnology, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence. Now, some of the thinkers on that email list are turning that AI future into a reality. But others are now worried - what if the AI ends up in charge of us all? As we head into an epochal shift for humanity, questions about democracy and tyranny run through the debates about how fast or slow to move forward. Because we don't want to end up living in the Matrix - Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham CREDITS: Timothy Leary 1992 half-hour appearance with cable TV host Skip E Lowe, copyright unknown, Alan Eichler, YouTube After all, the body is an extension of fashion, Natasha Vita More, YouTube At the end of the rabbit hole is\u2026 a machine. America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. At the end of the rabbit hole is - a machine. Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. | |
| 09 | S2: 8. The Last Election\u2026? | 20241030 | Gabriel Gatehouse, producer Lucy Proctor and Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Oxford University, in front of a live audience at the BBC's Radio Theatre. As the team emerges from series 2, what have we learned about the future of democracy in an age of technological change and split realities? Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham A live audience, a professor, and the team America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. A live audience, a professor and the team. | ||
| 10 | S2: 8. The Last Election\u2026? | 20241030 | Gabriel Gatehouse, producer Lucy Proctor and Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Oxford University, in front of a live audience at the BBC's Radio Theatre. As the team emerges from series 2, what have we learned about the future of democracy in an age of technological change and split realities? Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham A live audience, a professor, and the team America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. | ||
| 24 | Inauguration | 20250119 | 20250120 (R4) | America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. | |
| 01 | 01 | The Dead Body | 20220104 | 20220110 (R4) 20220911 (R4) | 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 him at a Trump rally in Arizona, ranting about a conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton and a cabal of satanic paedophiles plotting to steal the 2020 presidential election. The search for the origins of this strange and twisted tale begins in 1993, when the suicide of a White House aide during Bill Clinton's presidency reveals the first signs of a new information ecosystem that is starting to spill over into the mainstream. Myths about his murder proliferate on the early internet. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. In Arkansas a parallel reality is forming, in which the Clintons are a corrupt and murderous couple who will stop at nothing in their quest for power. Producer: Lucy Proctor A suicide in a park leads to the discovery of a parallel world. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. |
| 01 | 02 | Sex Lies, And\u06 A Videotape | 20220111 | 20220117 (R4) 20220918 (R4) | 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 different directions. Down one road lie sex scandals and eventually impeachment proceedings. But thanks to an Evangelical coalition the story goes off in another direction, involving Satan and a looming battle between good and evil. A dark fantasy has taken hold which bubbles away under the surface, ignored by the establishment. Producer: Lucy Proctor Satan gets pulled into a conspiracy. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. |
| 01 | 03 | The Basement | 20220118 | 20220124 (R4) 20220925 (R4) | 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' basements, making memes out of snippets of popular culture and Nazi symbols. He becomes a major figure in a dark new counterculture germinating on a niche website called 4chan. As the 2016 Presidential election approaches, a story grows on 4chan about Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, paedophilia, and references to pizza. The story bursts out into the real world when a man walks into a pizza restaurant with a gun. Producer: Lucy Proctor Presenter: Gabriel Gatehouse The internet walks into a pizza parlour and it's got a gun. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. |
| 01 | 04 | Q Drops | 20220125 | 20220131 (R4) 20221002 (R4) | 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 story about a coming storm, in which Trump is engaged in an epic battle against a cabal of satanic paedophiles who have hijacked the American Republic. A group of bloggers mainstream the theory and it starts having a life of its own with real world consequences. Qanon is born. But who is directing it? Producer: Lucy Proctor Presenter: Gabriel Gatehouse The battle for reality. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. |
| 01 | 05 | Blowback | 20220201 | 20220207 (R4) 20221009 (R4) | 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 Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in order to defeat Hillary Clinton. But the other half believes the investigations into Russian collusion are a hoax, a conspiracy by the establishment to unseat a democratically elected president. The QAnon community takes up this second narrative, in which a renegade General becomes a martyr and a figurehead. Producer: Lucy Proctor Presenter: Gabriel Gatehouse Don't mess with the Russians. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. |
| 01 | 06 | The Usual Suspects | 20220208 | 20220214 (R4) 20221016 (R4) | 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 of the Capitol in Washington DC, major figures from the QAnon movement gather in Dallas, Texas. Gabriel Gatehouse gets inside their conference to try to figure out who is now controlling this parallel reality. And he confronts General Flynn who is calling for his digital soldiers' to take over the country from the bottom up. Producer: Lucy Proctor All the threads come together in a cowboy-themed barn. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. |
| 01 | 07 | Welcome To The Future | 20220215 | 20220221 (R4) 20221023 (R4) | 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, establishment' Republicans are fighting a losing battle for the soul of their party, after one of the bloggers who mainstreamed the QAnon conspiracy theory has been elected to a powerful local position. Across America, people who believe Donald Trump's parallel narrative about a stolen election are trying to take over the levers of democracy. Was this the plan all along? Producer: Lucy Proctor Presenter: Gabriel Gatehouse A new movement and a prophecy. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. |
| 01 | 08 | Epilogue | 20220222 | 20220228 (R4) 20221030 (R4) | 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 were also pushing stories about the Clintons in the 1990s. Were the people who seeded the myths that led to QAnon involved in a vast conspiracy to break reality, to divide and conquer and divvy up the spoils? Gabriel seeks to understand the book, a favourite amongst the tech billionaires of Silicon Valley. They think a new version of the web, based on crypto and blockchain, will bring about the next step in the societal shift driven by the internet. What would that mean for democracy? Producer: Lucy Proctor The Sovereign Individual. QAnon and the plot to break reality. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. |
| 02 | 01 | The Yogi | 20240911 | America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. As America heads into a presidential election, Gabriel Gatehouse dives back into the labyrinthine rabbit warren of American conspiracy culture. Whilst liberals across the world worry about a possible return of Donald Trump, millions of Americans are convinced that their democracy has already been highjacked - by a sinister Deep State cabal. How did this happen? And who is behind it? Gabriel meets a January 6 rioter running for office who sees his detention as political imprisonment and goes on the trail of a Californian yogi who stormed the Capitol and then fell even deeper down the rabbit hole. Producer: Lucy Proctor A Jan 6 rioter glimpses the matrix. Gabriel Gatehouse follows his journey. A Jan 6 rioter glimpses the matrix. Gabriel Gatehouse follows his journey. America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. | |
| 02 | 02 | Flight 007 | 20240918 | America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. As Gabriel Gatehouse travels around America in the run-up to the 2024 Presidential election, he keeps hearing about the Federal Reserve. Many people think the Fed is a central cog in a grand conspiracy to impose a sinister ‘New World Order' and control the supply of money. These dark fears about the Federal Reserve are bound up with the fear of communism. And they go back to the Cold War - to a fringe group called The John Birch Society, and one of its leaders, Congressman Larry McDonald, who lived his life as if in the crosshairs of a terrifying communist conspiracy. Producer: Lucy Proctor At the height of the Cold War a charismatic Congressman meets a strange death. At the height of the Cold War a Congressman meets a strange death. America through the looking glass – follow Gabriel Gatehouse into a world where nothing is as it seems. | |
| 02 | 03 | 20240925 | America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. |