Azadeh Moaveni's intimate portrait explores the lives of four teenage girls from Bethnal Green. Vivacious and excelling at school, what drew them to make the shocking decision to join ISIS?

Azadeh Moaveni's acclaimed account was shortlisted for the Baille Gifford Prize for non-fiction. It tells the stories of a selection of young women who made the unsettling decision to sign up to the Islamic State.

Journalist, writer and academic Azadeh Moaveni covered the Middle East for almost two decades. She is the author of Lipstick Jihad and Honeymoon in Tehran. Together with the Nobel Peace Laureate, Shirin Ebadi, she wrote Iran Awakening.

Read by Nadia Albina.
Abridged by Penny Leicester
Produced by Elizabeth Allard Show less