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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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Train robber Charlie Wilson remembered (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Obituary

Retrospective on the life of Charlie Wilson, who took part in the Great Train Robbery, and who was shot dead last night in Marbella, Spain. Marbella journalist Chris Jones, fellow robber Ronnie Biggs, and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

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

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...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

LBC franchise renewed - Selection of clips and trailers (1982)

Genre

Interview; News report; Special; Trailer

A selection of news clips and trailers from the last 10 years of LBC, compiled to celebrate the station’s franchise being renewed. Followed by news of the renewal. Features reporters David Jessel, Ken Guy,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Goodbye 1981 (1981)

Genre

Discussion; Documentary; Interview; News report; Press conference; Special; Speech

Goodbye 1981. An LBC/IRN review of the year. Includes all the main news stories and events of the year, including the arrest of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe; wedding of Prince Charles, Prince of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Review of the year (1981)

Genre

Election coverage; Interview; News report; Obituary; Press conference; Special

A review of 1981, presented by John Greenwood and researched by Charlie Rose. Topics covered include the hunt for and arrest of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe; the release of US hostages in Iran just...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Brian Hayes show (1978)

Genre

Advertisement; Interview; News bulletin; Phone-in

Brian Hayes on the Great Train Robbery of 1963. In discussion with Piers Paul Read on his book, The Train Robbers, based on recollections of the robbers themselves. Also with the book’s contributors, Roy...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

IRN Review of 1981 - nd [1981]

IRN Review of 1981. Some reports also on AV769/653/S1 - Track 2. Yorkshire ripper Sutcliffe detained. American hostages released from Iran, arrival in USA. Setting up of SDP - Q.Roy Jenkins. Shirley Williams...

ILR South Radio Online Audio