1. The Yogi

America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.

As America heads into a presidential election, Gabriel Gatehouse dives back into the labyrinthine rabbit warren of American conspiracy culture.

Whilst liberals across the world worry about a possible return of Donald Trump, millions of Americans are convinced that their democracy has already been highjacked - by a sinister Deep State cabal. How did this happen? And who is behind it?

Gabriel meets a January 6 rioter running for office who sees his detention as political imprisonment and goes on the trail of a Californian yogi who stormed the Capitol and then fell even deeper down the rabbit hole.

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Producer: Lucy Proctor

Sound design and mix: James Beard

Editor: Richard Vadon

Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray

Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke

Original music: Pete Cunningham

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