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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Hello, I'm Ben Carter and welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm the producer of The Scramble for Rare Earths.

In this five-part series, Meisha Glenny finds out why the Battle for a small group of metals and critical raw materials

is central to rising geopolitical tensions around the world.

In this third episode we hear why Neodymium is vital for wind turbines and electric motors and

how the world can become less dependent on China to supply it. March 2020, the early days of lockdown for many of us, boredom setting in, but nobody knowing how long it would last.

The need for a new hobby, and in the US, one in particular gained popularity.

Magnet fishing. People throwing powerful magnets on lines into seas, rivers and lakes and pulling out some quite extraordinary things, warheads from World War

One for example, and even a dead shark attached to a metal hook. And they could only do that thanks to the extraordinary rare earth

metal used in the magnets, neodymium. It's this that gives the magnets their power. How strong? Well, a magnet weighing half a

pound can support metal the weight of a giant panda.

Neodymium is a silvery soft white metallic element and when it's combined with iron and boron to make magnetic alloys, it becomes a super magnet.

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