7 episodes

Acclaimed writer and journalist Jon Ronson relates his startling journey into the lives of the shamed - people ruined by a badly worded tweet or a work faux pas – in 6 episodes of 15 minutes each.

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson BBC Radio 4

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.8 • 74 Ratings

Acclaimed writer and journalist Jon Ronson relates his startling journey into the lives of the shamed - people ruined by a badly worded tweet or a work faux pas – in 6 episodes of 15 minutes each.

    Episode 6

    Episode 6

    In this last Episode 6 of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed Jon Ronson tries to evaluate whether social media now gives rise to more social ills than social benefits and asks how we can harness the power of online shaming for the public good, not public harm.
    Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Them: Adventures with Extremists.
    Abridged by Richard Hamilton
    Produced by Karen Holden

    • 18 min
    Episode 5

    Episode 5

    In this episode of So You've Been Publicly Shamed Jon is introduced to the shadowy arts of Reputation Management and witnesses how they can transform someone’s life for the better both online and In Real Life.
    Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Them: Adventures with Extremists.
    Abridged by Richard Hamilton
    Produced by Karen Holden

    • 16 min
    Episode 4

    Episode 4

    In this episode of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed Ronson explores misogyny in the world of online shaming, and asks whether shaming the shamers can ever be the answer.
    Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Them: Adventures with Extremists.
    Abridged by Richard Hamilton
    Produced by Karen Holden

    • 16 min
    Episode 3

    Episode 3

    Jon Ronson continues his exploration of the re-emergence of public shaming in modern society. In Episode 3 of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed hear how a single ill-advised tweet destroys one woman’s whole life.
    Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Them: Adventures with Extremists.
    Abridged by Richard Hamilton
    Produced by Karen Holden

    • 17 min
    Episode 2

    Episode 2

    In this episode of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed Jon Ronson meets former New Yorker writer Jonas Lehrer, someone who has been through a very painful and public shaming for plagiarism and falsification and watch how things only get worse when he tries to publicly apologise.
    Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Them: Adventures with Extremists.
    Abridged by Richard Hamilton
    Produced by Karen Holden

    • 16 min
    Episode 1

    Episode 1

    In this abridged version of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed writer Jon Ronson examines the re-emergence of public shaming, online and off, in the 21st century both online and elsewhere. He starts off thinking this phenomenon is a good thing, but gradually changes his mind. It all began when he happened upon a fake Twitter account which was posting as one Jon Ronson.
    Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Them: Adventures with Extremists.
    Abridged by Richard Hamilton
    Produced by Karen Holden

    • 17 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
74 Ratings

74 Ratings

Jack_McCoy ,

Quick and Interesting

A nice, short spoken word version of the book of the same name, narrated by the author. His take is well worth listening to, even if you don’t agree with everything he says.

bammerrs ,

Not good at all

What a horrible podcast, total waste of time listening to this.
I couldn’t make it through the first episode

oldjohnhall ,

Raises fair & interesting points

does Jon Ronson play Elliot Loudermilk in Scrooged?

It’s a fine listen, good stories well told, yadda yadda; I like it when authors voice their own audiobooks. though it really made me thirsty for a Jon Ronson VS Jonah Lehrer cage match. lol can you imagine? those nerds fighting no gloves no holds barred? 👄 💦 🤮

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