Jason Burke
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219 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Jason Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The world was on the the right trajectory.
Then suddenly there was this.
Nobody could make sense of it.
Looking back, we we can see it as something much, much darker starting.
There's no part of the Middle East or the Islamic world that hasn't obviously been touched by the consequences of nine eleven and takes us pretty directly into the present day.
Into the present day and the war of Iran.
I mean there are other factors obviously, but there is a definite line there.
I was uh back in London.
I'd been working in Afghanistan and Pakistan on actually the Taliban and Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden for a couple of years.
I was based out there and I'd I'd come back.
I was in the
Offices of the Observer in Farrington Road, North London, watching it on
TV screens we had up in the newsroom and
Like so many other people, I saw the first plane go in and thought, That's extraordinary an accident.
Although
uh, you know, something else was in my head at the time, given what I'd been working on over the previous three or four years.
And then the second plane went into the South Tower and I turned to
The foreign editor was standing next to me and just said, Das bin Laden.
Amen.
Did I know how big it was?
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