- Publication Date |
- Sep 26, 2021
- Episode Duration |
- 01:27:23
How can you really know you are safe? Could the next terrorist threat be around the corner?
Can we rehabilitate a terrorist? Or are they dangerous for life?
Join Professor David Wilson and Emilia Fox as they talk to some of the worlds leading experts in terrorism.
They sit down with Professor Ian Acheson, who led the landmark independant review into extremism in prisons and now works internationally with governments to help create stratergies to combat terrorism. In this frank and revealing chat, he explains how the the likihood of another terrorist act in the west is all too close for comfort. What can be done? And how do we stop this threat? Along with difficult truths, Prof. Acheson also has ideas about how we could be dealing with this better.
And Prof. Wilson and Emilia talk to Sam Collyns, the producer of "The Return: Life After Isis", a gripping and chilling documentary of "ISIS Brides'. These young girls, fled from the West to join ISIS, and now struggle to free themselves from their desperate situation after loosing their status, their freedom, even their children and their citizenship. Can we ever trust someone who was once devoted to terrorists? And is it the responsibility of the West to take back these people so they can face justice in the land they left?
Are we really winning the fight against terrorism, or are we deluding ourselves?
To find out,
Subscribe and listen now, to If It Bleeds It Leads, with Professor David Wilson and Emilia Fox, on Global Player or wherever you get your podcasts.