Season 1

episodes

1. 1. The Search for Omer Gershon 2011-09-11 10 min Jon Ronson starts looking into a man named Marc Pax, who posted a video on YouTube about experiencing homophobia when advocating gay rights. With it being discovered that this man was not actually Ma...
2. 2. Astroturfing 2011-09-21 10 min Wendell Potter speaks about a patient named Nataline Sarkisyan, who battled with Leukemia back in 2007 whilst CIGNA refused to provide a needed liver transplant.
3. 3. Two Weeks Later 2011-10-05 10 min Omar Gershon faked a video posted on YouTube, in which a man named Marc Pax claimed to experience homophobia when trying to join the Gaza Flotilla. Exploring Tel Aviv, Jon Ronson speaks with members...
4. 4. Egypt's Arab Spring 2011-10-19 10 min Talking to the telecommunications company Vodafone, it appears that during the Arab Spring uprising, the government requested for the internet to be shut down.
5. 5. Friday 2011-11-02 10 min Jon Ronson visits Patrice Wilson, a man who was responsible for the YouTube music hit 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. The video achieved over 200m views, and he believes he can do it again. Jon Ronson is t...
6. 6. Twitter Bots 2011-12-14 10 min Jon Ronson visits web analyst Tim Hwang (Web Ecology Project), who along with his colleagues has developed bots for the social media service Twitter. The bots generate random tweets in an experiment t...
7. 7. JON VS JON 2012-02-23 10 min The spam bot was created by academics formerly at Warwick University. Jon Ronson discusses his frustration with the fact many of the tweets seem plausible, even though they are about things he would n...
8. 8. Patrice Wilson Follow-Up 2012-03-09 10 min Patrice Wilson was the mastermind behind the YouTube music hit 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. Jon Ronson is treated to a second track made by Patrice Wilson just for him. This time Jon Ronson decides to g...
9. 9. JON VS JON Part 2 2012-03-22 10 min Jon Ronson arranges a meeting with the creators of the twitter spambot 'Jon_Ronson'. After some heated discussion and confusion in this interview, he discovers the academics' true agenda.
10. 10. Atos 2012-04-05 10 min Jon Ronson meets with Frances Kelly, the founder of 'Carer watch', a forum for people who stay at home to look after relatives with disabilities. It got taken down indirectly by a company called Atos...
11. 11. Tuesday 2012-04-19 10 min Patrice Wilson had expressed some concerns about a previous episode of Escape and Control, in which he felt unfairly portrayed. Therefore he offered to record a new song with Jon Ronson, and shoot a m...
12. 12. Finding Omer 2012-05-03 10 min With Jon Ronson's Escape and Control series coming to an end, it was time to make one more attempt at finding Omer Gershon, the actor who appeared in a YouTube video claiming to have experienced homop...
13. 13. Tuesday Music Video 2012-05-17 10 min Jon Ronson talks about creating the music video for the song 'Tuesday'. It features Patrice Wilson who was the creator of the YouTube music hit 'Friday' with Rebecca Black. Could Jon Ronson really tak...