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18/11/2022

Andrea Catherwood on reporting conspiracy theories with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring, recovering conspiracist Brent Lee and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Monitoring's Olga Robinson.

Radio 4 series Disaster Trolls investigates how victims of the Manchester Arena bombing and other UK terror attacks have been targeted by conspiracy theorists. Andrea Catherwood puts listeners' comments to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent Marianna Spring and recovering conspiracist Brent Lee.

Assistant Editor, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Monitoring, Olga Robinson joins Andrea to talk about her work helping News teams report on disinformation and conspiracy theories.

Also, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has been receiving letters from listeners since it started broadcasting 100 years ago. Former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Producer Colin Shindler has collected classics for his book “I am Sure I Speak for Many Others" and he shares them with Andrea.

And we hear what listeners have had to say about ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio coverage of the recent Just Stop Oil protests on the M25.

Presented by Andrea Catherwood
Produced by Gill Davies
A Whistledown Scotland production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4

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28 minutes

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Sun 20 Nov 2022 20:00

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  • Fri 18 Nov 2022 16:30
  • Sun 20 Nov 2022 20:00

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