Show Notes
Theo Padnos is an American journalist who spent 22 months as a hostage after being kidnapped by Islamist extremists before being passed to a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda in Syria in 2012. He tells Katie Hannon what he went through during his time in detention, and the mental toll of life in captivity.
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