7/7: The Inside Story – A Thursday in July • Episode 1

CONFLICTED

Message Heard

History, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Conflicted: 7/7 The Inside Story is now live to all our dear listeners! Episodes 1 & 2 are available from today, with the following episodes of this 6 part series on the terror attacks which changed the face of modern Britain coming every week... -- On a regular Thursday in July 2005, the peaceful morning air was shattered as four bombs ripped through the underground in central London. 52 people were killed, over 700 others were injured. London had never seen bombings of this magnitude before, never with this coordination. In the first episode of this special series of Conflicted, we hear from survivors, emergency workers and a former Al Qaeda spy as we recount the heart-pounding and tumultuous events of that fateful Thursday in July. It sets up a series where we will investigate the last two decades of terrorism and counter terrorism in the UK. How did it develop? What were the motivations behind? And why did terrorism, and the perceived threat of it, change the way in which the UK thinks about its own citizens? Conflicted - 7/7 The Inside Story is produced by Message Heard for Wondery. Hosted by Thomas Small. This series was written and produced by Harry Stott and Leo Danczak. Production Coordinator is Kirsty McLean. Sound design and engineering by Alan Leer, Ivan Eastley and Lizzy Andrews. Music by Tom Biddle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:19.4	It's early in the morning on the 7th of July 2005, just a regular Thursday in central London.
0:29.6	On days like this, the UK capital is a slow, lumbering beast, creaking as it wakes up, ready to receive millions of commuters pounding their way to work.
0:41.3	So the day started normally, you know, and probably for everybody in the country.
0:47.3	It was a summer's day, you always remember that.
0:51.3	But this morning, something happens that shocks London out of its summertime slumber,
0:58.5	something that had been fermenting for years,
1:01.3	as a unique and radical ideology spread throughout communities across the UK,
1:07.6	something that the British government had feared ever since September 2001 when two planes
1:14.1	hit the World Trade Center in New York.
1:18.6	I started seeing the news about an incident in London, and when I saw the images, I thought,
1:23.9	okay, this could be it. This could be the attack. I rather feared the worst. On that Thursday in July,
1:32.9	the country watches in horror as breaking news reports four explosions on busy commuter routes
1:39.6	across the capital. As bombs exploded across London subway system, there were scenes reminiscent of New York
1:46.1	on 9-11. I knew it was an explosion. Reports of an explosion outside Liverpool Street Station.
1:53.2	I remember everything going salmon pink, and then I heard the bang. It was a day-long fear in the capital.
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