Jon Ronson's Escape and Control Podcast
1) Tuesday Music Video
Jon Ronson introduces us to the song 'Tuesday' featuring Patrice Wilson.
2) Finding Omer
Jon Ronson tracks down Omer Gershon.
3) Tuesday
Jon Ronson meets Friday's creator Patrice Wilson to make a new song...
4) Atos
Jon Ronson meets with Frances Kelly, the founder of 'Carer watch', a forum for people who stay at home to look after relatives with disabilities. It got taken down indirectly by a company ca...Show More
5) Jon Vs Jon Part 2
Jon Ronson arranges a meeting with the creators of the twitter spambot 'Jon_Ronson'. After some heated discussion and confusion in this interview, he discovers the academics' true agend...Show More
6) Patrice Wilson Follow-up
Jon Ronson is contacted again by Patrice Wilson who was responsible for the YouTube music hit 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. Jon Ronson is treated to a second track made by Patrice Wilson just f...Show More
7) Jon Vs Jon
Jon Ronson discovers a spambot on twitter with the username 'Jon_Ronson', created by academics from Warwick University. He discusses his frustration with the fact many of the tweets seem pla...Show More
8) Twitter Bots
Jon Ronson visits web analyst Tim Hwang (Web Ecology Project), who with colleagues developed bots for the social media website twitter. The bots generated random tweets in an experiment to see if they...Show More
9) Friday
Jon Ronson visits a man named Patrice Wilson who was responsible for the YouTube music hit 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. The video achieved over 200m views, and he believes he can do it again. ...Show More
10) Egypt's Arab Spring
Jon Ronson looks into the recent Arab Spring revolution that took place in Egypt. Talking to the telecommunications company Vodafone, it appears that during the Arab Spring uprising, the government re...Show More