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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Hi there, you're listening to Seriously from BBC Radio 4 and I'm your host Vanessa Kasule.

This podcast brings you true stories for curious minds and wild imaginations.

Here comes something unusual, charming and seriously fascinating.

Plastic bottles, plastic pollution.

Tackling the scourge of plastic. We must reduce the demand for plastic coffee cups plastic the bottles plastic chopsticks everyone has

woken up to the need for action I'm deep in the underground archives of a British library, wearing a pair of protective gloves and holding a very precious old document, the plastics family tree. It details all the members of that family in the

mid 1930s. Perhaps the last time it was possible to fit all of these remarkable characters onto one piece of paper.

This was before their unstoppable rise and proliferation made it seem as if they were an integral part of our own families and long, long before

they would become the social outcasts they are today.

This is their story.

For decades,

for decades, plastics have swept all before them. This family so closely bonded arrived as if from nowhere, and soon

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