The Coming Storm
Hosted by Gabriel Gatehouse · BBC Radio 4
4.8from 2,106 ratings
- 38
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 2,106
- Ratings
- 2021
- First episode
About The Coming Storm
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? That's the story that Gabriel Gatehouse is investigating in this series of The Coming Storm. The search for the origins of this story takes Gabriel inside a paranoid political group that tried to build its own Deep State during the Cold War, now back in fashion in the conservative backwaters of western mountain states. Gabriel meets the January 6 rioters running for office who see their detention as political imprisonment in gulags, and the militia men convinced the CIA and FBI are working against the American people. In the background lurk the tech utopian ideologues, using their vast wealth and power to fund conspiracy flavoured content as they work to create sovereign states free of all government control. And online, amateur finance bros foment distrust of government, central banks and giant financial institutions to millions of followers. What were once fringe ideas have burst into the mainstream. Conspiracy theories have become central planks of Trump's Republican Party, while Democrats run on dark warnings about the end of democracy. With both sides convinced the other is an existential threat, what are the prospects for the survival of the American political system?
- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- government
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Dec 2021
- Latest episode
- 2 Jul 2025
Latest episodes
13 of 38 episodes have a transcript.
2 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT
Live at Hay Festival
20 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
S2: Inauguration - Live Q&A
19 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
S2: Inauguration - Bonus Episode
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Live at Hay Festival
Published 2 Jul 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that's why we need the BBC, I think, because I think one of the things that has made that much worse in America, and perhaps one of the reasons that we don't have it to the same extent here, is that the media in America has been so divided for such a long time, and then one social media has come in. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 520 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,586 ratings
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- 42
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- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 94
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