I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?
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Episodes: 30
Serena
Jul 20, 2023
Adele
Mar 21, 2023
Fascinating. It seems to be trying hard to be fair to Shamima, but she doesn't do
herself any favours. Hasn't
given me any reason to feel that she deserves repatriation to the UK. That said, it could have focused more on the fact that she was a CHILD when she ran off to join ISIS. Teenagers often do stupid things but she was only 15 when she left the UK.
Aug 29, 2022
Bon
Feb 11, 2021
This is fascinating. Seems well researched and decently reported but it really bugs me how Josh is constantly summarising from his OWN perspective, doesn't take into consideration the viewpoint/circumstances of the person he is discussing.
Especially when they have literally just told him.
me
Jan 18, 2021
Fascinating thriller
Description
Josh Baker enters a dangerous world of fear, greed and betrayal as he sets out to uncover the truth behind one of the biggest missing-person cases of our time - the abduction of American journalist Austin Tice.
Josh - creator of two of the BBC's most award-winning and widely listened-to investigative podcasts, I'm Not a Monster and The Shamima Begum Story - returns for his most ambitious chapter yet, in a major new series from BBC Radio 4 and NPR's Embedded.
This is not the retelling of a closed case. It is a real-time investigation into a disappearance that has remained unsolved for more than a decade, conducted in close contact with Austin's family.
What started out as a personal effort to help a mother find her son has turned into a multi-year journalistic investigation stretching from the corridors of power in Washington DC to the depths of the Syrian security state.
Austin Tice is a journalist, law student and former Marine officer, who vanished in Syria in 2012. Since then, competing stories have emerged about his fate. In some, he is alive - held in a cell and waiting to be rescued. In others, he was smuggled out of Syria and hidden away. In the darkest versions, he died long ago.
His disappearance has reached the highest levels of power - from presidents to popes - yet remarkably little is known about what happened to him.
Investigative journalists Josh Baker and Sara Obeidat begin following Austin's trail long before the fall of the Syrian regime. Then everything changes. The regime collapses, and the black box of Syria's intelligence state opens. Sources step forward, unprecedented leaks arrive and doors to secret bases that had been sealed for years open. Josh and Sara speak to spies, search secret prisons and track down alleged war criminals in hiding, uncovering information that has never been made public and making discoveries that generate international headlines. The audience follows every breakthrough as the investigation closes in on those who may know the truth - while Syria is transformed and powerful interests compete to shape what happens next.
Some claim Austin was working for the CIA. Others say he was simply a young journalist trying to make his name in war reporting.
His fate has become entangled in secret negotiations and geopolitical power struggles that are still unfolding. At the centre of it all is his mother, Debra Tice, who has never stopped searching for her son.
There are people who know exactly what happened to Austin.
Some of them do not want the truth to come out.
So where is Austin Tice?
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Where Is Austin Tice?: Trailer
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Where Is Austin Tice?: A Message from Josh
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: The Court Decides
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: Josh Baker Answers Listener Questions
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: Our Live Show
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: 10. The World’s Unwanted
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: 9. State of Mind
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: 8. No Plan B
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: 7. Trapped
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: 6. Father Figure
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: 5. Empty Paper
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: 4. When You’re In Love
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: 3. Double Agent?
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: 2. The Point of No Return
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: 1. It Felt Like a Dream
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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The Shamima Begum Story: Trailer
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 13. Your Questions Answered
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 12. Those We Leave Behind
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 11. Epilogue: The Wounds and the Scars
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 10. It’s All Behind Me Now
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 9. The Rest Be Damned
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 8. I Take My Book Back
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 7. On American Soil
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 6. Now I’m Calling the Shots
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 5. We Had a Great Life
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 4. She’s Like My Mother
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 3. My Name is Yusef
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 2. Read Between the Lines
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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I'm Not A Monster: 1. I Love You, I Miss You
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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I'm Not A Monster: Trailer
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Nov 13, 2020 |