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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You're about to hear something gripping, extraordinary, and seriously unforgettable. suitable. For several weeks we lived in a cellar. We cooked on an open fire outside. We could hear shells exploding all around us and automatic fire.

I never went more than 200 meters from the entrance.

It was too scary to go further and my parents wouldn't let me anyway because well I'm

the only child and they want to protect me.

Then soldiers came to our house and said it was quiet.

This was the best time to leave.

So at six next morning we left. On March the 27th, a young Ukrainian architecture student called Vlada fled the rubble of her home city

Marriupel, devastated by Russian bombardment, together with her mother, stepfather, fiancé,

and two godparents. But they didn't go west, like the millions of

Ukrainian refugees now in safer parts of their own country or elsewhere in Europe. Their

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