The teenager who mailed himself from Melbourne to London with guest host Jan Fran

In 1964, a Welsh teenager named Brian Robson found himself working a job he hated in a country he hated even more: Australia. He couldn't afford the plane ticket home, so he first tried smuggling himself out of the country by boat, & when that didn’t work, he had himself sealed inside a wooden crate and sent as cargo from Melbourne to the UK. What he thought would be an easy 48-hour journey turned into a five day ordeal which almost killed him.

Jacob shares the story with guest host Jan Fran. Follow Jan on Instagram & Twitter @jan__fran and hear her on the podcasts 'The Briefing' and 'A Rational Fear'.

Skip straight to the story: approx 6:30

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Read Brian’s memoir The Crate Escape, released in 2021 https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Crate_Escape.html?id=9ylozgEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y 

Watch one of Brian’s appearances on morning TV in the UK to promote his book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RDuaH6LVkA 

This New York Times article has a few pictures from the reports of Brian’s discovery in LA https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/world/australia/brian-robson-crate-australia.html 

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