Transcripts for I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?

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Josh Baker enters a dangerous world of fear, greed and betrayal as he sets out to uncover the truth behind one of the biggest missing-person cases of our time - the abduction of American journalist Austin Tice. Josh - creator of two of the BBC's most award-winning and widely listened-to investigative podcasts, I'm Not a Monster and The Shamima Begum Story - returns for his most ambitious chapter yet, in a major new series from BBC Radio 4 and NPR's Embedded. This is not th…

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I'm Not A Monster: Trailer

2020-11-13 · 3 min

An American mother living in the heart of the ISIS caliphate. Her husband an ISIS sniper. Her 10-year-old son forced to threaten the U.S. president in a propaganda video shown around the world. She...

I'm Not A Monster: 1. I Love You, I Miss You

2020-11-23 · 20 min

A suicide bombing in Iraq and a home video from inside the ISIS caliphate begin the search for a family trapped in Syria. A desperate plea arrives from an American woman who says she wants to escap...

I'm Not A Monster: 2. Read Between the Lines

2020-11-30 · 31 min

A man who says he’s a people smuggler offers to help the family, while a drive around a suburb in Indiana reveals their past. Sam’s father adds a new twist on who his daughter really is. This...

I'm Not A Monster: 3. My Name is Yusef

2020-12-07 · 24 min

The Islamic State group forces Sam’s son Matthew to spread its propaganda. Josh searches the woods of Idaho looking for a man on an elk hunt. Then an obscure tweet leads him to Syria to try to find...

I'm Not A Monster: 4. She’s Like My Mother

2020-12-14 · 29 min

A young boy in the mountains of Northern Iraq makes Josh question what he knows about Sam. Then ten days searching war-torn Syria lead to an offer of help, but can it be trusted? This episode...

I'm Not A Monster: 5. We Had a Great Life

2020-12-21 · 30 min

Josh is face-to-face with Sam after a year trying to track her down. On a military base in Syria, she begins to tell her side of the story. She says it all started as a family holiday. Report...

I'm Not A Monster: 6. Now I’m Calling the Shots

2020-12-28 · 32 min

A torture prison, buying slaves and a dramatic escape: Sam continues her account of her years in Raqqa. This episode includes references to sexual abuse, extreme violence and some upsetting m...

I'm Not A Monster: 7. On American Soil

2021-01-18 · 39 min

As Josh starts to uncover more about the family’s past, Sam tries to explain away some of the many discrepancies in her story. Then, a connection to the FBI raises new questions about her. If...

I'm Not A Monster: 8. I Take My Book Back

2021-01-25 · 52 min

Josh retraces Sam’s steps in Syria and asks could she have been an ISIS supporter all along? He meets her old neighbours in Raqqa, visits the infamous torture prison where she says she was held and...

I'm Not A Monster: 9. The Rest Be Damned

2021-02-01 · 34 min

After years of insisting she’s innocent, Sam pleads guilty and Moussa’s exes reveal more about the man that led her to Syria. Sam’s team claims she was “a wife under the thumb of her violently abus...

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