Alcatraz: The strangest escape - a podcast by BBC World Service

In June 1962 three prisoners escaped from the maximum security US jail on the island of Alcatraz.

They achieved this using a homemade raft, papier-mâché and... spoons.

In 2013, Ashley Byrne spoke to Jolene Babyak who was living on the island at the time.

A Made in Manchester production for BBC World Service.

(Picture: Alcatraz. Credit: Getty Images)

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