#3: The Most Amazing Prison Escapes in History

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Today we're going to be taking a look at 5 of the most amazing prison escapes in history.

We'll travel to South Korea, Mexico, Germany, and the US, and discover some of the ingenious ways in which prisoners evaded their guards.

• Escape 1: John Herbert Dillinger and the wooden pistol • Escape 2: Choi Gap Bok, the South Korean yoga expert • Escape 3: The Alcatraz escape - but did it really happen? • Escape 4: The Great Escape - how 600 men managed to keep an escape plan hidden from their guards • Escape 5 (and 6): El Chapo, $2.5 million, laundry baskets, tunnels, and motorbikes

Key vocab: Protagonists, Ingenious, Dummies, Without further ado, Ringing a bell, Notorious, Carved, Lured, Shootout, Brute, Wriggle, Perished, Cult, Shark-infested, Tides, Feat, Raft, Intriguing, Immortalized, Squadron, Sheer, Barbed wire, Implicated, Evade, Extradited, Bribe

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Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/the-most-amazing-prison-escapes-in-history

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