Esc & Ctrl
In Esc & Ctrl: Stories About People Trying to Control the Internet, with searing interviews, unravelling mysteries and some great fun along the way, Jon Ronson is setting off on an adventure that may mean you'll never look at your mouse in the same way again.
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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Search for Omer Gershon
11-09-201110mJon 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...
- Ep 2
2.Astroturfing
21-09-201110mWendell Potter speaks about a patient named Nataline Sarkisyan, who battled with Leukemia back in 2007 whilst CIGNA refused to provide a needed liver transplant.
- Ep 3
3.Two Weeks Later
05-10-201110mOmar 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...
- Ep 4
4.Egypt's Arab Spring
19-10-201110mTalking to the telecommunications company Vodafone, it appears that during the Arab Spring uprising, the government requested for the internet to be shut down.
- Ep 5
5.Friday
02-11-201110mJon 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 ag...
- Ep 6
6.Twitter Bots
14-12-201110mJon 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 tweet...
- Ep 7
7.JON VS JON
23-02-201210mThe 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 abo...
- Ep 8
8.Patrice Wilson Follow-Up
09-03-201210mPatrice 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...
- Ep 9
9.JON VS JON Part 2
22-03-201210mJon 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...
- Ep 10
10.Atos
05-04-201210mJon 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...
- Ep 11
11.Tuesday
19-04-201210mPatrice 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 R...
- Ep 12
12.Finding Omer
03-05-201210mWith 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 ha...
- Ep 13
13.Tuesday Music Video
17-05-201210mJon 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 J...
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