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Tricks from a hit TV show held the key to Jaivet Ealom’s audacious dash for freedom.
As a student in his native Myanmar, Jaivet Ealom became obsessed with the hit US TV show Prison Break. He watched it on a loop, but never in his wildest dreams did he think he’d be in a similar position to its main character. When he found himself locked up in Australia's notorious Manus Regional Processing Centre with no end in sight, could he outdo fiction and find a way out?
Presenter: Jo Fidgen
By BBC World Service4.7
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Tricks from a hit TV show held the key to Jaivet Ealom’s audacious dash for freedom.
As a student in his native Myanmar, Jaivet Ealom became obsessed with the hit US TV show Prison Break. He watched it on a loop, but never in his wildest dreams did he think he’d be in a similar position to its main character. When he found himself locked up in Australia's notorious Manus Regional Processing Centre with no end in sight, could he outdo fiction and find a way out?
Presenter: Jo Fidgen

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