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Ronald Leslie on Ronnie Biggs abduction (1981)

Genre

Interview

Ronald Leslie, one of the men involved in helping Ronnie Biggs escape from Wandsworth Prison, on Biggs’s abduction in Brazil and possible deportation. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Victory’s Review of the Year 1981 (1982)

1- Royal Wedding. 2- American hostages returned. Arrest of Peter Sutcliffe. Murder of parents by Andrew Alder near Chichester. 3- Cutbacks at Portsmouth Dockyard, 4 thousand jobs lost [60 percent of work...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Ronnie Biggs plea (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report

John Cookson reports on attempts to gain a royal pardon for Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs. Includes interview with Ronnie Biggs; press interview with Michael Biggs, son who has flown to the UK to plead...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ronnie Biggs on return to Brazil (1981)

Genre

Interview

Dave Foster interviews Great Train Robber, Ronald (Ronnie) Biggs, who discusses his release from captivity in Barbados, and his subsequent return to Brazil.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jack Slipper on Ronnie Biggs (1981)

Genre

Interview; Speech

Former detective Jack Slipper on the latest attempts to bring Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs back from Brazil to Britain to serve his sentence. Male interviewer not identified. Clip begins with Biggs...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ronnie Biggs on his new book (1981)

Genre

Interview

Exiled Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs on his new book, Ronnie Biggs: His Own Story. Interviewer not heard.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ronnie Biggs on Great Train Robbery (1983)

Genre

Interview

Ronald (Ronnie) Biggs, one of the robbers involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, recalls the event. He has a regular girlfriend now, is not in touch with his former wife, and stays in Brazil. He says...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ronnie Biggs released in Barbados (1981)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on train robber Ronnie Biggs and the unsuccessful attempt made to extradite him from Barbados. Includes an interview by Paul Cable who speaks to Ronald Leslie, who helped Biggs escape from Wandsworth...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ronnie Biggs on Great Train Robbery (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with criminal Ronnie Biggs, in Brazil. He talks about the Great Train Robbery in 1963 and the assault on train driver Jack Mills. He also comments on his children and says they should keep away...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ronnie Biggs on 20 years as fugitive (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with fugitive Ronnie Biggs via telephone as he commemorates his 20 years of liberty in Brazil where he lives openly after escaping prison for his role in the Great Train Robbery. Male interviewer...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio