News of the Times Episode 116 | 1724-1915
Daring Escapes from England's Prisons: Twisted Tuesdays
The quest for freedom beats heavily in all people.
In this episode we look at 4 daring prison escapes from England’s notoriously dreadful prisons.
Jack Sheppard, so famous that Daniel Defoe of Robinson Crusoe fame ghost wrote his autobiography.  He escaped Newgate Prison twice!
William Bisgrove – the only murderer to successfully escape and remain free from scary Broadmoor Prison for the Criminally Insane.
A wonderful handwritten account of an escape attempt form 1901
And the famous successful escape of a German Prisoner of war in 1915
Hosted by Robin Coles.

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