Josh Baker: How to Build an Investigation

Josh Baker is a celebrated British documentary maker who also created an international sensation in 2020 with his first podcast, I’m Not a Monster. The 10-part BBC series details what happened to an American woman after she traveled to Syria with her family to join IS in 2015. In 2023, Baker made a sequel to his tour de force with The Shamima Begum Story, this time about a British teenage girl who traveled to Syria in the same year.

At the festival, Josh will give a masterclass on how to build an investigation. However, he would like to add that he himself prefers to avoid the word ‘masterclass’ because “it suggests I have a giant ego.” But considering that I’m Not a Monster is by far the most lauded podcast in BBC history - both the first and second series won a Rose d’Or - it’s fair to start talking about a master. No?

This keynote is in English.