![The Long View show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/101/416/small/the-long-view.jpg)
Summary: <p>Jonathan Freedland compares the current wave of fake news stories, particularly those targeted at Muslims and immigrants in the UK, with the anti-Semitic story of an eight-year-old Christian boy, William of Norwich, who was murdered in woodland outside his native city in 1144. His death was later reported as a Jewish conspiracy and ritual, becoming the founding myth of the so-called 'blood libel'. Producer: Tom Alban.</p>