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This episode originally aired in 2012.\nAn all-star lineup of producers \u2014 Pat Walters, Lynn Levy, and Sean Cole \u2014 bring you stories about traps, getaways, perpetual cycles, and staggering breakthroughs.\xa0\nWe kick things off with a true escape artist \u2014 a man who\u2019s broken out of jail more times than anyone alive. Why does he keep running... and will he ever stop? Next, the ingeniously simple question that led Isaac Newton to an enormous intellectual breakthrough: why doesn\u2019t the moon fall out of the sky? In the wake of Newton's new idea, we find ourselves in a strange space at the edge of the solar system, about to cross a boundary beyond which we know nothing. Finally, 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.\nNow sit back, relax and enjoy what we hope will prove to be a welcomed Escape.Episode Credits:Reported and produced by\xa0Pat Walters, Lynn Levy, and Sean Cole\n\nLeadership support for Radiolab\u2019s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.