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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BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

Hello, I'm Kerry Thomas and this is seriously from BBC Radio 4.

You're listening to Nazanine episode 3.

Taking a hostage, at least the way the Iranians do it,

can't be a spur-of-the of the moment decision. For days or maybe weeks

before they see someone there must be calculations to run. Which country is

going to be the target? What kind of person do we need? Who's done something that we can

twist to accuse them of spying or trying to bring down the government? At the

end of all that I imagine a finger running down a list of names and stopping.

That one.

There are different schools of thought about exactly when the clock started ticking on Nazanine's detention.

There's a long drip-drip theory that it was Iran's slow mounting anger at Britain's

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