The Road to Anarchy
The Road to Anarchy is a new 12-part podcast series from Exeter-based arts collective Jack Dean & Company about the incredible true story of the 1926 UK General Strike.
Backed by an original score, its narrative weaves together histories of work, travel and radical thought, to look at why so many of us hate our jobs and what we could do about it.
A hundred years ago this May, Britain stopped working. Three million people walked out of their jobs. Another two and a half million prepared to join them, forming a combined total of nearly a third of the entire British workforce. Trains and buses stopped running, unions competed with the army for control of the food supply, riots took place across the country, and the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin published a statement that ended with the words: “The General Strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin.”
The Road to Anarchy is a new 12-part podcast series from Exeter-based arts collective Jack Dean & Company about the incredible true story of the 1926 UK General Strike. Backed by an original score, its narrative weaves together histories of work, travel and radical thought, to look at why so many of us hate our jobs and what we could do about it.
Episodes drop weekly from the 5th of January 2026 on the Fogland Lighthouse podcast feed.
Subscribe on Spotify here or wherever you get your pods.