Escape

The walls are closing in, you've got no way out...and then, suddenly, you escape!

During this hour of Radiolab, 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.