Preview: Girl Taken - Episode 1
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Across the world people were presented with what appeared to be a heart-breaking but straightforward story of a father and his motherless daughter struggling to get to Britain. But behind those headlines lay a far more sinister truth. BBC Journalist Sue Mitchell and former soldier Rob Lawrie discover that the little girl appears to have simply vanished. Can they find her in time?
Girl Taken is a 10-part hunt - across closed borders and broken promises - for the truth and to find a little girl, taken.
Listen to the rest of the series on BBC Sounds.
Producer: Sue Mitchell Studio Production and Sound Design: Richard Hannaford
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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 and welcome to the Seriously Podcasts from BBC Radio 4. I'm welcome to the Seriously Podcast from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Sue Mitchell and I want to tell you about my new podcast series, |
| 0:48.8 | Girl Taken. |
| 0:51.5 | Four years ago across the world people were presented what appeared to be a heartbreaking |
| 0:57.0 | but straightforward story of a father and his motherless daughter struggling to get to Britain but behind those headlines |
| 1:05.3 | lay a far more sinister truth. In this series former soldier Rob Lorry and I |
| 1:12.2 | discover the little girl appears to her The |
| 1:13.4 | former soldier Rob Lorry and I discover the little girl appears to have simply vanished |
| 1:17.4 | But can we find her in time? |
| 1:21.1 | Coming up is the first episode of this series. |
| 1:25.0 | If you'd like to hear the rest of the story, |
| 1:27.0 | just search for Girl Taken on BBC Sounds. sounds. It's a winter's night in Scotland and it's cold. |
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