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  • BANGED UP ABROAD

  • Monday 4 December 2023 at 11:00PM
  • National Geographic

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Follow the world’s most daring and dangerous criminals, from a drug trafficking war hero, to a Latin King street boss and a feminist drug baron, as they fall spectacularly into the hands of the law, losing their freedom to some in the world’s most fearful prisons and learning the true cost of a life of crime along the way.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Banged Up Abroad: Narco Neverland
    To escape a life of poverty, a young Chicago gangster is drawn into smuggling drugs for a dangerous Mexican cartel, until the day it all goes wrong.
  • Banged Up Abroad: Dame of Cocaine
    This is the true story of Andrea Mohr from Germany. She was involved in international drug smuggling and other criminal activities such as organized crime. She organized numerous drug trades around the world. She served a prison sentence from 1999 to 2004 in the high-security prison for women in Australia, in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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    Monday 4 December 2023 at 11:00PM - National Geographic
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    Tuesday 5 December 2023 at 3:00AM - National Geographic

    Tuesday 5 December 2023 at 7:00AM - National Geographic
  • Banged Up Abroad: Episode 1
  • Banged Up Abroad: Declassifies A King's Ransom
    Rafael Arguelles is a gangster by the age of 17 but faces life-threatening consequences after going undercover for the FBI against his former friends.
  • Banged Up Abroad: Sole Smuggler
    David Harte is in his forties when his life collapses around him. He is tempted into the shady world of drug smuggling before being busted in Mauritius.
  • Banged Up Abroad: Fighting Yaba
    This installment details the true story of Boxing Billy Moore's struggle to survive inside Klong Prem Prison, the notorious "Bangkok Hilton". Billy Moore traveled to Thailand to escape a life of drug addiction and alcoholism. He managed to overcome his inner demons for awhile, but eventually relapsed after trying yaba, which is a highly addictive form of methamphetamine.
    Next Showing:  
    Tuesday 26 December 2023 at 7:00PM - National Geographic
  • Banged Up Abroad: Trauma Express
    As the Cartels, DEA and a terrifying hitman all close in, drug runner Chris Heifner turns informant to save his family and take down his best friend.
  • Banged Up Abroad: Episode 2
  • Banged Up Abroad: Declassified Double Cross Dope Deal
    Travel-loving Bronwyn Atherton finds herself on the road to destruction when she is lured into the shady world of international drug smuggling.
  • Banged Up Abroad: Episode 3
  • Banged Up Abroad: Love Behind Bars
    After smuggling drugs for eighteen months, Anelda Mare decides to quit, only to be told her parents will be killed unless she makes one last run.
  • Banged Up Abroad: Episode 4
  • Banged Up Abroad: Casuality of War
    Veteran British soldier Brett Leonard Makinson, a retired parachute regiment medic, heads to India to overcome his PTSD but is soon tempted into smuggling weed out of the Himalayas to various parts of Europe. Caught and jailed in India, he is tortured until he signs a blank piece of paper for the Indian authorities.
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    Saturday 2 December 2023 at 7:00AM - National Geographic
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    Sunday 3 December 2023 at 3:00PM - National Geographic

    Tuesday 5 December 2023 at 11:00AM - National Geographic
  • Banged Up Abroad: Big Trouble in Tokyo
    Steven Beattie's Thai party lifestyle isn't cheap. He smuggles hash to fund it, but pays the ultimate price when he's locked up in Japan.
    Next Showing:  
    Tuesday 5 December 2023 at 7:00PM - National Geographic
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    Tuesday 12 December 2023 at 7:00PM - National Geographic

  • Banged Up Abroad: Episode 5
  • Banged Up Abroad: Solo Smuggler
    David Harte is in his forties when his life collapses around him. He is tempted into the shady world of drug smuggling before being busted in Mauritius.
    Next Showing:  
    Tuesday 19 December 2023 at 7:00PM - National Geographic
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