3. The Basement

3. The Basement

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

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Live at Hay Festival

Live at Hay Festival

Gabriel Gatehouse and producer Lucy Proctor were on stage at the Hay Festival in May 2025. They discuss the second Trump administration, making the second series and how the storm seems to be progress...

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Inauguration: Live Q&A

Inauguration: Live Q&A

Gabriel Gatehouse is joined by the BBC’s US Digital reporter Mike Wendling to answer listener questions.Has the storm finally come?What do listeners want to know about the incoming Trump administratio...

20 Jan 202539min

Inauguration Bonus

Inauguration Bonus

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 ...

19 Jan 202540min

8. The Last Election…?

8. The Last Election…?

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 emerg...

30 Okt 202454min

7. Wonderland

7. Wonderland

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 intell...

23 Okt 202439min

6. Kompromat

6. Kompromat

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 ...

16 Okt 202433min

5. The Photocopier

5. The Photocopier

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 so...

9 Okt 202436min

4. The Jump

4. The Jump

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...

2 Okt 202435min

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