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Series 2: The Court Decides
Feb 23, 2024 6 min

Series 2: The Court Decides

Nine years to the day since Shamima Begum entered ISIS controlled Syria, she’ll find out whether she’s any closer to coming back to Britain. Josh is at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London...

Series 2: Josh Baker Answers Listener Questions
Nov 29, 2023 53 min

Series 2: Josh Baker Answers Listener Questions

Josh answers your questions about Shamima Begum and the making of the multi-award winning series. Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC’s Radio Theatre in London, Naga Munchetty puts your ...

Series 2. Our Live Show
Aug 08, 2023 1 min

Series 2. Our Live Show

What do you want to know about The Shamima Begum Story and the making of the podcast? Join us on Tuesday the 12th of September in London, as Josh answers your questions about the series, share more...

Series 2: 10. The World’s Unwanted
Mar 22, 2023 45 min EXPLICIT

Series 2: 10. The World’s Unwanted

What happened to the girl Shamima Begum says convinced her to join the Islamic State group?Less than 24 hours before this episode was published ,we got the answer. Reporter: Josh Baker Written and ...

Series 2: 9. State of Mind
Mar 08, 2023 37 min EXPLICIT

Series 2: 9. State of Mind

No longer a vulnerable schoolgirl, but a seemingly unrepentant adult. Shamima Begum enrages the British public and ends up stuck in Syria.A series of media interviews come to shape how she’s percei...

Series 2: 8. No Plan B
Mar 01, 2023 29 min EXPLICIT

Series 2: 8. No Plan B

Raqqa falls, the so-called caliphate crumbles and a pregnant Shamima Begum is desperate to come home.After she and her husband Yago walk out of the ashes of the Islamic State group, she’s discovere...

Series 2: 7. Trapped
Feb 22, 2023 32 min EXPLICIT

Series 2: 7. Trapped

Someone close to Shamima Begum is looking for a way out of the so-called caliphate.Reporter: Josh Baker Written by: Josh Baker and Joe Kent Producers: Josh Baker, Sara Obeidat and Joe Kent Compo...

Series 2. 6. Father Figure
Feb 15, 2023 40 min

Series 2. 6. Father Figure

With her new husband in prison, Shamima Begum is left in the care of a stranger, but who is he? Josh travels to the heart of the former caliphate as he searches for clues and investigates what her ...

Series 2: 5. Empty Paper
Feb 08, 2023 34 min EXPLICIT

Series 2: 5. Empty Paper

Shamima Begum’s new life under ISIS isn’t what she expected. She says what she thought would be paradise is more like a prison. At just 15 years-old she finds herself trapped in an ISIS guesthouse,...

Series 2: 4. When You’re In Love
Feb 01, 2023 33 min EXPLICIT

Series 2: 4. When You’re In Love

Friendship, propaganda and the promise of paradise - why Shamima Begum left London at 15 for the Islamic State group in war torn Syria. But how did she ignore the group’s brutal violence? And who c...

Series 2: 3. Double Agent?
Jan 25, 2023 37 min

Series 2: 3. Double Agent?

The man who smuggled Shamima Begum to Syria claims he was spying for Canada. What's the truth? And could she and her school friends have been stopped from reaching the Islamic State group?Reporter:...

Series 2: 2. The Point of No Return
Jan 18, 2023 31 min EXPLICIT

Series 2: 2. The Point of No Return

Following Shamima Begum’s route reveals a dangerous Islamic State group smuggling network, but that’s not all. A local taxi firm isn’t what it seems and a gangster threatens to make Josh “disappear...

Series 2: 1. It Felt Like a Dream
Jan 11, 2023 32 min EXPLICIT

Series 2: 1. It Felt Like a Dream

Three London schoolgirls disappear, heading for a war zone. Four years later only one emerges from the ashes of ISIS. Nobody knows what really happened to her. Josh Baker meets Shamima Begum in Syr...

Introducing… The Shamima Begum Story
Jan 04, 2023 3 min

Introducing… The Shamima Begum Story

Investigating the story of Shamima Begum. At 15, she ran away from her London home with two school friends to join the terror group ISIS in war torn Syria. Now she wants to come back. It’s a tale ...

Coming soon... The Shamima Begum Story
Aug 31, 2022 1 min

Coming soon... The Shamima Begum Story

Seeking to separate fact from fiction, the multi award-winning series returns to investigate the divisive story of Shamima Begum. When three London school girls went missing in 2015, they generat...

Series 1: 13. Your questions answered
Jan 25, 2022 31 min

Series 1: 13. Your questions answered

Since the series ended, so many of you have got in touch wanting to know more. With the help of criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw, Josh answers your questions.Presenters: Josh Baker and Dr Julia ...

Series 1: 12. Those we leave behind
Jan 18, 2022 25 min EXPLICIT

Series 1: 12. Those we leave behind

In Northern Iraq, Josh finds out how two people you’ve been asking about are doing now.In 2014, the Islamic State group killed thousands of members of the Yazidi religious community and kidnapped a...

Series 1: 11. Epilogue - The wounds and the scars
Nov 16, 2021 30 min EXPLICIT

Series 1: 11. Epilogue - The wounds and the scars

What happened to the family Josh was staying with when the Islamic State group struck in 2016?I’m Not a Monster began after Josh was injured by an ISIS truck bomb in Mosul, Iraq. If it wasn’t for a...

Series 1: Update
Nov 13, 2021 3 min

Series 1: Update

Josh is back with news of what to expect next and with a reminder of what we heard in I’m Not A Monster.Reporter: Josh Baker Producers: Joe Kent and Max Green“I’m Not a Monster” is a collaboration ...