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The Coming Storm

America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. Gabriel Gatehouse investigates.

Radio 4,24 episodes

Episodes

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Live at Hay Festival
Presenter Gabriel Gatehouse and producer Lucy Proctor discuss the second series.
23 Jun 2025,62 mins
S2: Inauguration - Live Q&A
What did listeners want to know about the incoming Trump administration?
20 Jan 2025,39 mins
S2: Inauguration - Bonus Episode
The storm breaks as Donald Trump returns.
19 Jan 2025,40 mins
S2: 8. The Last Election…?
A live audience, a professor, and the team
30 Oct 2024,54 mins
S2: 7. Wonderland
At the end of the rabbit hole is… a machine.
16 Oct 2024,39 mins
S2: 6. Kompromat
Jeffrey Epstein and the unified conspiracy theory of everything.
09 Oct 2024,33 mins,
S2: 5. The Photocopier
Crypto cowboys plan a meme nation.
02 Oct 2024,36 mins,
S2: 4. The Jump
A blockbuster film takes on the big beasts of Hollywood.
25 Sep 2024,35 mins,
S2: 3. The Enemy Within
An alliance forms in Idaho between cowboys, militiamen and a new kind of Republican.
18 Sep 2024,38 mins
S2: 2. Flight 007
At the height of the Cold War a charismatic Congressman meets a strange death.
10 Sep 2024,36 mins
S2: 1. The Yogi
A Jan 6 rioter glimpses the matrix. Gabriel Gatehouse follows his journey.
09 Sep 2024,40 mins
S2: Welcome back to The Coming Storm
America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.
04 Sep 2024,2 mins
S1: The Louis Theroux Interview
Gabriel Gatehouse in conversation with Louis Theroux.
24 Nov 2022,54 mins
S1: The Mid-Terms 2. The Regime
A laptop reveals its secrets.
13 Nov 2022,55 mins,
S1: The Mid-Terms 1. Groomers
A new diabolical enemy emerges.
06 Nov 2022,42 mins
S1: 8. Epilogue
The Sovereign Individual.
22 Feb 2022,38 mins
S1: 7. Welcome to the Future
A new movement and a prophecy.
15 Feb 2022,37 mins
S1: 6. The Usual Suspects
All the threads come together in a cowboy-themed barn.
08 Feb 2022,42 mins,
S1: 5. Blowback
Don’t mess with the Russians.
01 Feb 2022,34 mins
S1: 4. Q Drops
The battle for reality.
25 Jan 2022,35 mins
S1: 3. The Basement
The internet walks into a pizza parlour and it’s got a gun.
18 Jan 2022,31 mins
S1: 2. Sex, Lies, and… a Videotape
Satan gets pulled into a conspiracy.
11 Jan 2022,34 mins,
S1: 1. The Dead Body
A suicide in a park leads to the discovery of a parallel world.
04 Jan 2022,33 mins
S1: Welcome to The Coming Storm
QAnon and the plot to break reality.
20 Dec 2021,2 mins