This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.

The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.

And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.

The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.

The IRA inmates who found a way.

I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path

through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.

The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.

Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.

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Next up, something captivating, enlightening and seriously good. So I'm just going to get your ticket out for you and your cab a heat.

The Irish Sea has provided a crossing between the islands of Ireland and Britain for millennia.

Shannon Coyne. It's a body of water which both separates and connects the histories of both places.

I grew up looking out on its murky brown waters from the Whirl Peninsula. My father sailed out to cross it as a merchant

sailor and like countless others in Merseys, grandparents and great-grandparents sailed across it from Ireland to start new lives.

Oh the weight of history that that expanse of water curries.

It's extraordinary and it's so broad and it's so emotional because there are themes there of emigration,

of return, of exile, of defeatism, of optimism, and also hanging over all of that I suppose, that

strong idea of a divide.

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