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A 9/11 Story: 10. A Quarter Century
2026-09-11 | 15 mins.
Terry Strada spies the FBI Director in a VIP area. Can she get to him to make her case before time runs out? A new generation is preparing to step into the fight for answers.
A BBC News Long Form Audio production.
Host: Jane McMullen
Series producer: Neal Razzell
Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle
Editor: Matt Willis
Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons
Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King
Production management: Phoebe Lomas
Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams
Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
A 9/11 Story: 9. The Puzzle
2026-09-11 | 14 mins.
Decades of arguments and evidence land before a judge. Terry Strada’s hopes hang on how he pieces it all together: an airplane sketch, a video from Washington, and call records between Saudi officials in the US. FBI Special Agent Danny Gonzalez is confident: “Put all these little pieces together and make one big puzzle and you'll see it.”
A BBC News Long Form Audio production.
Host: Jane McMullen
Series producer: Neal Razzell
Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle
Editor: Matt Willis
Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons
Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King
Production management: Phoebe Lomas
Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams
Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
A 9/11 Story: 8. The Party
2026-09-09 | 14 mins.
When one of Omar Al-Bayoumi’s home videos contains more than was first thought, FBI Special Agent Danny Gonzalez is shocked. Decades after he should have seen it, can it make a difference?

A BBC News Long Form Audio production.
Host: Jane McMullen
Series producer: Neal Razzell
Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle
Editor: Matt Willis
Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons
Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King
Production management: Phoebe Lomas
Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams
Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
A 9/11 Story: 7. Secret Weapon
2026-09-08 | 14 mins.
To keep a promise to her kids, Terry Strada must master an unknown world and defy a president...all in uncomfortable shoes. She’s pounding the corridors of power in Washington, but a decisive moment comes at an opulent party on Long Island.

A BBC News Long Form Audio production.
Host: Jane McMullen
Series producer: Neal Razzell
Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle
Editor: Matt Willis
Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons
Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King
Production management: Phoebe Lomas
Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams
Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
A 9/11 Story: 6. More Questions than Answers
2026-09-07 | 14 mins.
The FBI’s Danny Gonzalez suffers setbacks professional and personal after British police release the man at the centre of his investigation: Omar Al-Bayoumi. And official inquiries fail to provide Terry Strada the answers she so badly needs.

A BBC News Long Form Audio production.
Host: Jane McMullen
Series producer: Neal Razzell
Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle
Editor: Matt Willis
Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons
Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King
Production management: Phoebe Lomas
Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams
Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke

About Intrigue

Twenty-five years on from the deadliest terror attack in history, BBC investigative journalist Jane McMullen asks why thousands of grieving families are still fighting for answers. In early 2000, two young Saudis arrived in San Diego. They had never been to America, spoke almost no English, and had no idea how to open a bank account or rent a flat. Within weeks they had done all of it. Twenty months later they hijacked a plane and crashed it into the Pentagon. McMullen investigates the hidden story of a man who helped two of the hijackers - and reveals a story that the US and Saudi governments have fought to keep secret.

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