Everything Is Fake

Jamie Bartlett asks why, in so many parts of modern life, fakery is no longer punished - it's rewarded. And why so many of us seem strangely unbothered by it.

Radio 4,16 episodes

Episodes

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Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
Trailer
Is fake the new real? Jamie Bartlett investigates.
04 Mar 2026,2 mins
Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
1. Fake it. Make it. Podcast it.
People mistake Jamie Bartlett for Steven Bartlett. Jamie wants to know why.
11 Mar 2026,28 mins
Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
2. Kayfabe Country
Could wrestling really be the birthplace of modern fakery? Jamie Bartlett investigates.
17 Mar 2026,28 mins
Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
3. My Truth, Your Truth, and Anything But the Truth
‘It’s not a lie if you believe it.’ Jamie Bartlett on how that became the new norm.
17 Mar 2026,28 mins
Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
4. The Lance Armstrong Defence
If everyone is faking it and getting away with it, why wouldn't you?
17 Mar 2026,29 mins
Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
5. Doctor’s Orders
Who do you trust - the BBC or a cardiologist with millions of followers?
08 Apr 2026,28 mins
Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
6. F For Fake
Jamie and Jimmy explore where fakery goes next – but can you tell which is which?
15 Apr 2026,28 mins
The Gatekeepers
Trailer
The founders of social media conquered the world... and they’re not finished yet.
29 Jan 2024,3 mins
The Gatekeepers
1. We Are as Gods
A hand-bound book cooked up in the summer of love inspires the pioneers of social media.
05 Feb 2024,29 mins,
The Gatekeepers
2. Blitzscaling
A young tech CEO faces a dilemma. His solution will change the internet forever.
05 Feb 2024,29 mins
The Gatekeepers
3. Are You Not Engaged?
At the high point of technological optimism, the vision starts to disintegrate.
12 Feb 2024,29 mins
The Gatekeepers
4. Flood the Zone
2016 is a big election year. But something is going very wrong online.
19 Feb 2024,31 mins
The Gatekeepers
5. The Vortex
A change to an algorithm in 2016 has huge consequences.
26 Feb 2024,29 mins,
The Gatekeepers
6. Arbiters of Truth
Social media CEOs stand at a crossroads. Will they make their platforms safer?
04 Mar 2024,31 mins
The Gatekeepers
7. Rest of World
A professor is murdered in Ethiopia. His son believes that Meta is partly responsible.
11 Mar 2024,30 mins
The Gatekeepers
8. I Sung of Chaos
Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
18 Mar 2024,32 mins