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    Escape

    The walls are closing in, you've got no way out...and then, suddenly, you escape! Stories about traps, getaways, perpetual cycles, and staggering breakthroughs.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Jad Abumrad • Jun 10, 2012 • 1 min read

    The walls are closing in, you've got no way out...and then, suddenly, you escape! Stories about traps, getaways, perpetual cycles, and staggering breakthroughs. We meet a man who's broken out of jail more times than anyone alive, travel to the edge of the solar system ... to a boundary beyond which we know nothing, and we hear the story of a blind kid who freed himself from an unhappy childhood by climbing into the telephone system, and bending it to his will.

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      Jad Abumrad

      creator of "Radiolab," and host of the new podcast “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man”

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      Robert Krulwich

      host of 'Radio Lab'

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