My Road to Conflicted (with Jake Warren)

Because Aimen is still away, we’re taking this opportunity to introduce you all to our executive producer Jake Warren. A journalist and programme-maker, Jake not only had the idea for Conflicted, he is also the founder of Message Heard, the company that produces the show.

Jake and Thomas discuss:

• Conflicted’s origin story
• Jake’s Hungarian-Jewish grandfather who escaped on the Kindertransport
• His early work for Vice Media in North Korea, Rwanda, and Lebanon
• How he won the trust of notorious Islamist preacher and organiser Anjem Choudary while covering his story
• Visiting the family of murdered soldier Lee Rigby
• How Jake first came across Aimen’s story
• How Thomas and Aimen became friends

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Conflicted is a Message Heard production.

Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren.

Produced and edited by Thomas Small.

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