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Glorification of Great Train Robbery (1988)

Genre

Interview

Chris Moncrieff, one of the detectives involved in the case, on the glorification of the Great Train Robbery 25 years ago today. He says the films, books and musical about it should be boycotted. For AM...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.30: Programme 30 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 30 Programme 30 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 17 May 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

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...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Nightline (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with accomplice in the Great Train Robbery, Buster Edwards, on Nightline, on the 25th anniversary of the robbery. As a film of his life is about to be released (Buster). On why people are still so...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Train robbery at O’Rourkes Bridge, Northern Ireland (1984)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker on a train robbery in Northern Ireland, on the Belfast-to-Dublin train. The train was stopped at O’Rourkes Bridge, then taken one-and-a-half miles to Mount Pleasant, south of the...

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Train robber Buster Edwards comments on a film about his life (1988)

Genre

Interview

Accomplice to the Great Train Robbery, Buster Edwards, on how it felt doing the robbery and being in jail, and the biopic on his life about to be released (Buster) 25 years to the day since the robbery....

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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...

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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...

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Attempted mail train raid (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on an attempted Great Train Robbery copycat raid on a London to Liverpool overnight train, in which the raiders obtained a duplicate key to the mail carriage and sprayed a guard in the face with...

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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...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio