I'm Not A Monster: Episode 1

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

I’m Not A Monster is a new multi-part investigative series from FRONTLINE, BBC Sounds, and BBC Panorama.

FRONTLINE is featuring the first few episodes of the series here for listeners of The FRONTLINE Dispatch.

In episode 1, 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 escape the Islamic State group with her young children.

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0:00.0	Hi Frontline listeners. I'm Rainy Aronson, executive producer of Frontline and I'm excited to share something different and new with you, our first ever multi-part investigative podcast series. It's called I'm not a monster. We made the show with our
0:15.2	partners at BBC Sounds and BBC Panorama. I'm not a monster is a 10-part
0:20.7	series that tells the story of an American family's journey from Indiana
0:24.8	to the heart of the self-declared ISIS caliphate and back. Over the next week
0:30.2	we're dropping the first few episodes of this story here.
0:33.6	To listen to the rest of the series, subscribe to I'm Not a Monster wherever you get your
0:38.2	podcast.
0:39.9	I hope you enjoy episode one of I'm not a monster.
0:43.6	The Front Line Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation
0:52.0	committed to excellence in journalism and by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence in journalism,
0:54.4	and by the Frontline Journalism Fund,
0:56.6	with major support from John and Joanne Hagler.
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