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Buster Edwards’ criminal career (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report; Obituary

Great train robber Buster Edwards has been found hanged in a lock-up garage near London’s Waterloo station where he had a flower stall. He is believed to have committed suicide. Clodagh Kennedy looks...

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They stole a train (1988)

On 8th August 1963, fifteen men robbed the night mail train from Glasgow to London. They stole two and a half million pounds. The crime was dubbed the ‘Great Train Robbery’. This documentary traces the...

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Presidential election campaigns (1976)

Genre

Election coverage; News report; Speech

Peter Sharp reporting from Washington on the close run presidential election campaign. Includes speech excerpt from Gerald Ford; band playing at a Carter rally; Reverend Bruce Edwards on why he banned a...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1980)

Genre

Drama

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Broadcast on Capital Radio. Dramatisation in five parts, with Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Gough as Dr Watson, and with Percy...

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Great Train Robbery 30th anniversary (1993)

Genre

Interview; News report

Ian Fenn reports on the 30th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery with short clip from film. With robber Buster Edwards on why they have turned into folk heroes and the violence used against Jack Mills who...

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Funeral of train robber Charlie Wilson (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Tribute; Vox pop

Gareth Furby reports on the South London funeral of train robber Charlie Wilson, who was shot dead last month at his Spanish villa. Four of the former train gang members joined 150 mourners for the service...

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