An Unlikely Prisoner cover art

An Unlikely Prisoner

How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar’s Most Notorious Jail

Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

An Unlikely Prisoner

By: Sean Turnell
Narrated by: Sean Turnell
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar's terrifying Insein Prison on the trumped-up charge of being a spy. In An Unlikely Prisoner he recounts how an impossibly cheerful professor of economics, whose idea of an uncomfortable confrontation was having to tell a student that their essay was 'not really that good', ended up in one of the most notorious prisons in South-East Asia. And how he not only survived his lengthy incarceration, but left with his sense of humour intact, his spirit unbroken and love in his heart.

©2023 Sean Turnell (P)2023 Penguin Random House Australia Audio
Heartfelt

Listeners also enjoyed...

Mr Ordinary Goes to Jail cover art
Made in China cover art
Chasing Wrongs and Rights cover art
Betrayed cover art
Marked for Life cover art
Prison Days: Meeting Monsters cover art
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs cover art
The Toughest Prison of All cover art
A Place Outside the Law cover art
Lawless cover art
Doing Time Like a Spy cover art
The Road to London Bridge cover art
Rough Beast cover art
A Bit of a Stretch cover art
The American Trap cover art
That Peckham Boy cover art

Critic reviews

'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner...is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald

No reviews yet