The Turnaround with Jesse Thorn
The Turnaround with Jesse Thorn
Maximum Fun and Columbia Journalism Review
Louis Theroux
55 minutes Posted Jul 27, 2017 at 5:38 pm.
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Today Jesse is visited by Louis Theroux, a British documentarian and BBC presenter. Much of Louis' career has been spent covering various subcultures. These groups have been as innocuous as UFO hunters or as extreme as Neo-Nazi groups and anti-gay religious sects like the Westboro Baptist Church. Louis talks to Jesse about how his interviews often bring him into very intimate contact with people with beliefs diametrically opposed to his own. He also shares some hard-won interviewing wisdom, including why a non-response to a question can almost be as interesting as an actual response.