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Banged Up Abroad

Rating:3.3 of 5Total number of episodes:26Last broadcast:14/11/2017 at 21:35
November 2017
44:00

Season 10, Episode 4 (Somali Pirate Hostage Hell)

3.0 73 x
The shocking story of Debbie Calitz and Bruno Pelizzari, who were kidnapped by Somali pirates and held captive for 10 terrifying months.
45:00

Season 10, Episode 3 (Bogota Belly Bust)

3.0 80 x
The story of 28-year-old Canadian Tabitha Ritchie, whose life took a terrifying turn when she was caught smuggling drugs out of Colombia.
September 2017
46:00

Season 9, Episode 8 (Fast, Furious And Busted)

3.0 41 x
When hot-shot street-racer Rick learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, he is drawn into a life of crime to provide for his family.
46:00

Season 9, Episode 7 (Buried Alive)

3.0 30 x
When Roy is kidnapped in Iraq while working for the US military, the race is on to find where he is being held - before it's too late.
46:00

Season 9, Episode 6 (Vegas Mobster)

3.0 26 x
When the Mafia put a hit on his life, Frank entered the witness-protection program and lifted the lid on criminal activity in Las Vegas.
46:00

Season 9, Episode 5 (Vietnam Pows: Mccain And Brace)

3.0 39 x
The incredible story of two pilots imprisoned during the Vietnam War, John McCain and Ernest Brace, who depended on each other for survival.
July 2017
46:00

Season 8, Episode 9 (Busted In Bangkok)

4.0 90 x
Thrown into a notorious Bangkok prison for attempting to smuggle heroin, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany while nursing a fellow inmate with a drug addiction.
46:00

Season 8, Episode 8 (Nigel Brennan: Nightmare In Somalia)

3.0 43 x
In 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout to report on the war in Somalia. Little did he know that the price of telling the story would be more than a year in captivity.
46:00

Season 8, Episode 7 (Venezuela Hustle)

3.0 41 x
Desperate to keep his family afloat, Paul Keany agrees to smuggle 6 kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin but it turns out to be the worst decision of his life.
46:00

Season 8, Episode 6 (Orchid Hunters)

3.0 38 x
The shocking story of Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, two British backpackers who were ambushed and held to ransom by a guerilla group while crossing the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.
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