BBC allows Shamima Begum to tell her story of how she joined ISIS in 10-part podcast

The broadcaster insists that the show is a 'robust' investigation into Begum The 23-year-old tells a journalist about her life in a refugee camp in Syria The BBC released a 10-part podcast about Shamima Begum and her life in ISIS The BBC has released a 10-part podcast about Shamima Begum in which she tells her story of how she joined ISIS and about life in a refugee camp. The BBC has released a 10-part podcast about Shamima Begum in which she tells her story of how she joined ISIS In 2015, Begum, then 15, and her school friends Kadiza Sultana, 15, and Amira Abase, 16, fled their East London homes to join IS. Her two companions are believed to have died while there In the first episode, journalist Josh Baker meets Begum in the Syrian detention camp to discover how she joined ISIS and eventually ended up stranded. In the podcast the 23-year-old claims that the refugee camp in Syria she is in is 'worse than a prison' Josh Baker said: 'There are different ways to tell the Shamima Begum story.