Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,15 Feb 2017,49 mins

Why Did I Lose My Son to IS?

Outlook

Available for over a year

Nicola Benyahia originally comes from North Wales in the United Kingdom. In 2015, her eighteen year old son Rasheed disappeared and it was weeks before he contacted her to tell her that he had joined so-called Islamic State in Syria. She describes the anguish of losing her son. Domenic DiBernardo is an Italian Canadian man who has amassed an amazing collection of 300 old fashioned gramophones. Reporter Michelle Macklem went to meet him and find out why. In 1971 John Francis witnessed an oil spill in San Francisco Bay. It had a profound effect on him and he decided he was going to walk everywhere in future to avoid using transport which relied on oil. But he went even further and ended up not speaking for an extraordinary seventeen years. He tells Matthew why. Peruvian artist Christian Fuchs has an interesting family history. His ancestors were German aristocrats who went to live in Latin America. Christian became fascinated with forging a connection to these long dead people and he now uses elaborate make-up and costumes to transform himself into them. Outlook's Jane Chambers went to meet him. Image: Rasheed Benyahia Credit: Nicola Benyahia

Programme Website
More episodes