EXCLUSIVE: Jon Ronson‘s audio series Things Fell Apart is returning for a third season next year.
The new season, the show’s first in three years, will follow the British-American gonzo journalist as he explores eight stories of outsiders fighting powerful institutions.
Per the synopsis, it will include “all too human stories about the moment one person decides to stop accepting the world as it is… stories about what happens when someone attempts to spark that hardest thing – a shift in power. Stories that often have unexpected – and sometimes terrible – consequences.”
BBC Studios Audio is producing for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, with Sarah Shebbeare the executive producer. The season is planned for an early 2027 launch, nearly three years after Season 2.
Season 1 of the show, launched in 2021, saw Ronson scour history for the origins on the culture wars, while Season 2 three years later dealt with eight more stories about the new battle lines in the same cultural conflict, which had snowballed during lockdown.
However, Ronson has now identified a new trend – individuals declaring war on powerful organizations, and this will be the basis of Season 3.
“A new season of Things Fell Apart has become an event in itself, thanks to the creative excellence and hard work of Jon and his team,” said Daniel Clarke, BBC Radio 4 Factual Commissioning Editor. “There is simply no one else working in audio who has the same capacity to combine the epic with the intimate and to tell stories that make us think so hard, as well as evoking such spine-tingling feelings.”
“I think we’ve managed to find some extraordinary stories about what happens when an individual takes on a Goliath – a powerful institution or hierarchy or belief system,” added Ronson. “How do these things go right, or wrong? How does a shift in power happen? And how do the institutions snap back? These are nuanced, unfolding human stories, with twists and turns, like mini movies.”
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