Series 2: 1. It Felt Like a Dream

I'm Not a Monster

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Three London schoolgirls disappear, heading for war zone. Four years later only one emerges from the ashes of ISIS. Nobody knows what really happened to her. Josh Baker meets Shamima Begum in Syria to begin unpicking her story. Almost eight years earlier, he was filming in Shamima’s local mosque when news broke that she and her friends had gone missing, it made global headlines. He was there when their families came asking for help, but it was all too late; they'd already made it into the hands of the Islamic State group. But how did it all begin? Reporter: Josh Baker Written by: Josh Baker and Joe Kent Producers: Josh Baker, Sara Obeidat and Joe Kent Composer: Firas Abou Fakher Theme music: Sam Slater Mix and sound design: Tom Brignell Production coordinator: Janet Staples Series Editor: Jonathan Aspinwall Head of Long Form Audio: Emma Rippon Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins ARCHIVE Good Morning Britain (ITV, September 2021) Sky News: John Sparks interviews Shamima Begum (February 2019)

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:08.4	OK, so take me through the day you leave.
0:12.7	I woke up early in the morning.
0:14.8	Really early, like maybe five, six o'clock,
0:16.8	because I'll flight left at like 12 o'clock.
0:19.2	We just wanted to be there early.
0:21.0	I had to make an excuse as to why I was going.
0:23.8	It was during the holiday, so I was just like,
0:25.6	I have extra classes that I need to go to
0:27.4	because I had my GCSEs coming up.
0:29.8	I'm not believe me.
0:32.3	She woke me to the bus stop.
0:33.5	I just stood there with her.
0:35.4	You know, I'm just being quiet and stuff.
0:37.0	She was just staring at me and not saying anything.
0:40.1	I just said bye to her and I got on the bus and I left.
0:43.6	I feel really guilty, obviously, not giving her a better goodbye.
0:47.4	Knowing that I would probably never see her again.
0:52.3	I just got on the bus to Cadiz's house.
0:55.7	I picked her up, we went and met.
0:57.9	I'm here, and then we just went to the airport.
1:02.7	Our bags were already somewhere else, like hidden somewhere else.
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