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Jan 2024
33m 59s

We’re Coming After You, Honey

Bbc Radio 4
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How a chance encounter in a yacht club in the early 2000s between a bartender and a very wealthy couple with a daughter sick with a mystery disease ended with the creation of the first great covid conspiracy theory.

Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah Shebbeare Original music by Phil Channell

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