Summary
Negotiations between the UK and Iran to settle an old debt and allow Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to return to her family in the UK take a new turn. But the United States creates a fresh obstacle to her release.
Presenter: Ceri Thomas Producer: Matt Russell Original music: Tom Kinsella A Tortoise Media production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, I'm Kerry Thomas and this is seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:44.4 | You're listening to Nazanine episode 5. |
| 0:48.0 | If you put yourself in the shoes of a hostage family like Nazanin Zagari |
| 0:51.2 | Ratcliffe's, you can probably imagine the terror you'd feel at first when someone you love is taken. |
| 0:57.0 | And if you keep on thinking about it after those first days and weeks, you might picture yourself lurching into a kind of boredom year after year of not much |
| 1:05.8 | going on and the only progress you actually care about always just out of reach. |
| 1:12.0 | The truth is much more unsettling. Nazanin's chances of |
| 1:14.9 | getting out ebb and flow all the time. There are storms, sometimes political |
| 1:19.4 | ones, which change her fortunes dramatically, but mostly the hopes of her family and all the other families rise and fall on slow tides. |
| 1:28.5 | Diplomatic tides, political ones, the threat level in the Middle East. |
| 1:34.0 | There's so much more going on than you'd think, if you only tune in, |
| 1:38.0 | when Richard goes on hunger strike. At the end of the last episode we were in 2019. |
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