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, I'm Helena Merriman and and you're listening to Seriously, from BBC Radio 4.

It was summer.

I remember it was a hot afternoon because I was wearing shorts and my legs kept sticking

to the black plastic chair.

I was sitting in a room, it was all white, nothing on the walls,

and there was a man in front of me telling me the name of this condition he said I had.

Then my time was up. telling me the name of this condition he said I had.

Then my time was up.

I said goodbye and I left the room.

I got on the bus home, my head was frazzled, couldn't think straight. And then I looked up at the other people

on the bus and I wondered if they'd gone through anything similar, wondered how they'd

coped.

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