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.

BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

Hello, me again, Gabriel Gatehouse,

with a special from Seriously on BBC Radio 4.

Now episode 3 of the puppet master.

The forces he couldn't control.

cut them out.

We're on the trail of Mr Black Square,

aka Vladislav Serkov,

master manipulator, creator of fakes, in news and politics, in peace and war.

Now he does say things that I think he and I both know are not true. January 2011, its opening night at the Moscow Arts Theatre, tickets have been changing hands for astronomical prices. Among the audience are the hip and the cool of the liberal avant-garde.

They settle into their seats.

The lights go down, and actor Anatoly Belly steps on stage.

It was a completely dark space.

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