Last man standing - Coming soon
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
In 2012, British journalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria. Then a series of videos emerged showing Cantlie spouting ISIS propaganda. He hasn’t been seen since.
In this new series - beginning Friday 24 June - the Times’ War Correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of the missing hostage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Manvine here. I wanted to let you know about a special eight-part series beginning |
| 0:09.3 | this Friday here on Stories of Our Times. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, my name is John Cantley. I came to Syria where I was subsequently captured by the Islamic |
| 0:22.7 | State. A new kind of video appeared. It was the start of a Islamic State series called Lemuria's |
| 0:30.2 | and in it appeared John Cantley not as the victim of imminent execution but as the presenter |
| 0:37.1 | in a series of Islamic State films. Along with my colleague, Anthony Lloyd, |
| 0:42.4 | we'll try to get to the bottom of what happened to a British photo journalist who was first captured |
| 0:48.5 | in 2012. This video provoked two questions. How was it that John was surviving? |
| 0:55.6 | How was it that he had become the last man standing? |
| 0:59.0 | He's never been seen since. While every other western hostage was either released or beheaded |
| 1:06.3 | but 10 years on we still don't know what happened to John Cantley. I think he was a bit of a |
| 1:14.3 | Floor genius if you like. I don't know if anyone really knew what was going on inside his head. |
| 1:19.7 | He also said I am an idiot going into a place like this. |
| 1:25.9 | Of course I'm an idiot and of course everybody will hate me. |
| 1:29.6 | Maybe I will live and maybe I will die but I want to take this opportunity to convey some facts. |
| 1:37.6 | Last man standing a new eight-part investigative series begins this Friday here on Stories of Our Times |
| 1:44.8 | with me, Anthony Lloyd, the war correspondent for the Times. And me, Manvine Rana, make sure you don't |
| 1:51.8 | miss an episode. |
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