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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#3: The Most Amazing Prison Escapes in History