4. The Driver
Josh and Sara piece together Austin鈥檚 final route into Damascus. They find the farm where he celebrated his 31st birthday. Then comes an unprecedented discovery.
Josh and Sara piece together Austin鈥檚 final route into Damascus. They find the farm where he celebrated his 31st birthday - the last place his mother spoke to him.
Then comes an unprecedented discovery. For years, the story was that Austin was taken at a checkpoint. But what Josh and Sara uncover suggests something far more deliberate. And at the centre of Austin鈥檚 disappearance is one man.
Archive: 麻豆社; CNN; Fox.
Writer and showrunner: Josh Baker
Investigative producer: Sara Obeidat
Series producer: Simon Maybin
Field producing: Ouday Al Hussein
Additional producing: Lucy Burns
Open source intelligence: Thomas Bordeaux & Gabor Friesen
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Series editor: Clare Fordham
Head of 麻豆社 News Long Form Audio: Emma Rippon
麻豆社 Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
NPR producer: Monika Evstatieva
NPR editors: Robert Little & Katie Simon
NPR executive producer for Embedded: Irene Noguchi
麻豆社 World Service commissioning editor: Jon Manel
Composer: Firas Abou Fakher
Additional music: Karim Chehoury
Theme music: Sam Slater
Mix and sound design: Tom Brignell
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- Wed 30 Sep 2026 09:30麻豆社 Radio 4
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Josh Baker investigates one of the biggest missing-person cases of our time.