Last man standing - The Sunday Story

最后一战——周日故事

The Story

2026-03-01

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Next week, the BBC launches a new three part documentary, Hostage, based on our award winning Times podcast series Last Man Standing. It's the story of British photojournalist John Cantlie who was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State in 2012. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since. So what happened to him? In this episode, The Times War Correspondent, Anthony Lloyd, begins his investigation. This episode was first published on 24 June 2022. Listen to the whole series: Last Man Standing  Hosts: Manveen Rana and Anthony Lloyd, War Correspondent, The Times. Clips: BBC, 5Live, CNN, NBC, BBC. Further reading: The murky truth about Britain’s forgotten hostage John Cantlie We've launched The Story's first ever listener survey! If you can, please take a few minutes to fill it in. You can find it here: The Story survey This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • At the height of the vicious and bloody civil war in Syria,

  • the British journalist John Cantlie was dragged from a car at gunpoint and kidnapped.

  • Two years later,

  • his best friend and colleague James Foley became the first Western hostage to be beheaded by ISIS,

  • live on camera.

  • John's fate was more complicated.

  • A few months later, he appeared in a very different ISIS video.

  • One that was seen as propaganda,

  • raising questions about whether he had turned or

  • if he was playing an incredibly dangerous game to survive.

  • What would you do?