Series 2: 8. No Plan B

I'm Not a Monster

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Raqqa falls, the so-called caliphate crumbles and a pregnant Shamima Begum is desperate to come home. After she and her husband Yago walk out of the ashes of the Islamic State group, she’s discovered in a detention camp where she gives an interview that will change her life. 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 coordinators: Janet Staples and Helena Warwick-Cross Series Editor: Jonathan Aspinwall Head of Long Form Audio: Emma Rippon Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins ARCHIVE: Islamic State's final fighters hold on in Baghouz as caliphate crumbles: ITV News (2019) Alex Rossi goes inside the Islamic State's last stand in Baghouz: Sky News (2019) Anthony Lloyd interviews Shamima Begum: The Times of London (2019) This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and some upsetting moments involving children.

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0:00.0	How many people who live there on the FBI's most wanted list?
0:04.6	I remember sat down for a podcast with the BBC.
0:08.7	For over a decade, a pair of mug shots have lived side by side on the FBI's website.
0:14.8	These individuals are considered as terrorists.
0:17.5	In 2005, they were called the number one domestic terror threat in America.
0:22.6	Estimates are a quarter billion dollars in damages.
0:25.2	The cause of their alleged terrorist actions, the environment.
0:29.3	Their purpose was direct action to disrupt environmental destruction.
0:34.7	How far is too far to go to stop the planet burning?
0:38.5	If it's not me then it's who.
0:40.1	I don't know if it's not me now, let me just wait.
0:42.9	Burn Wild.
0:44.2	Find us now on BBC Sounds.
0:49.9	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:54.2	Before we begin, I just wanted to make you aware that in this episode,
0:58.6	there are some graphic descriptions of violence
1:01.2	and some upsetting moments involving children.
1:07.2	Can we go back to 2019?
1:10.9	And why you went to Syria, what you were doing?
1:15.0	I was going to report on the Battle of Baguze,
1:18.1	which was the last slither,
1:20.8	the last territorial entity of the caliphate,
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