Series 1: 5. We had a great life

I'm Not a Monster

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

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. Reporter: Josh Baker Written by: Josh Baker and Joe Kent Producers: Joe Kent and Max Green Production assistant: Lucie Sullivan Composer: Sam Slater Mixed By: Tom Brignell Series Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Editor: Jason Phipps “I’m Not a Monster” is a collaboration between BBC Panorama and FRONTLINE (PBS) and is a BBC Radio Current Affairs production for BBC Sounds.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	BibiT sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.0	Before we go any further,
0:08.0	there are some descriptions of violence
0:10.0	and some upsetting moments involving children in this episode.
0:18.0	My story? Oh, yeah, absolutely.
0:20.0	It is very difficult to believe. It is very hard to believe.
0:25.0	Just a moment. I'm in an office
0:29.0	with a man who has pictures of Sam and the kids on his phone.
0:33.0	Anytime you don't hear from them for an amount of time, you think they're dead.
0:37.0	You think the worst every time.
0:39.0	When banana, banana tree, banana for.
0:43.0	Where did you learn this song?
0:45.0	From the American family.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:50.0	I'm not a bad person. I'm not a monster.
0:54.0	I'm Josh Baker.
0:56.0	And from BBC Panorama and Frontline PBS.
1:00.0	This is I'm not a monster.
1:03.0	Episode five. We had a great life.
1:06.0	We had a great life.
1:23.0	I just found Matthew, Sam and all the kids together.
1:32.0	I had the kids climbing all over me and it's the weirdest experience.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.