Summary
A top secret little-known mission that changed the outcome of World War II. Not Alan Turing's Enigma code-breaking mission but a daring foray, conducted behind enemy lines on the shores of Normandy.
Harrison Lewis and wetland scientist Christian Dunn re-enact one of the most remarkable feats of the Second World War and discover the intricate details of the daring but forgotten science that underpinned D-Day.
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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. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasulae. This podcast finds the world's best |
| 0:47.0 | audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. So, Vertz a mere here? Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, right? |
| 0:59.0 | Pessie? |
| 1:00.0 | Pessie, yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | Okay. See here. |
| 1:07.0 | Here. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello. |
| 1:11.0 | Hello. Hello, I'm Harrison Lewis. I'm about to disembark from the boat that you can probably hear I'm on. |
| 1:29.2 | We're looking out onto the French coast. It's Normandy to be precise and we're hoping to get onto one of the beaches used for landing by Allied forces during D-Day. We're going to be doing |
| 1:34.8 | it in order to recreate one of the most remarkable scientific experiments of the |
| 1:40.4 | war. |
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