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Buster Edwards on Ronnie Biggs (1980)

Genre

Interview

Great Train Robber, Buster Edwards on his former colleague in crime, Ronald Biggs, and the inevitability of his having to serve a prison term should he return to the UK. Female interviewer not identified.

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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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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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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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Buster Edwards on the film, Buster (1988)

Genre

Interview

Buster Edwards (born Ronald Edwards) talks about the film, Buster, starring Phil Collins and Julie Walters, about the infamous train robbery which led him go on the run for three years. He denies any...

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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...

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Buster Edwards found dead (1994)

Genre

Interview

Waterloo station newspaper seller Mary Essex gives reaction to the death of great train robber Buster Edwards who had a flower stall at the station. He was found hanged at a lock-up near the station, and is...

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Great train robber, Buster Edwards, found hanged - Barry Rowan’s reaction (1994)

Genre

Interview

Interview with taxi driver and former Millwall soccer player Barry Rowan about the death of Great Train Robber, Buster Edwards, who has been found hanged at a lock-up garage near Waterloo Station in south...

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Phil Collins on role in Buster (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Phil Collins on his new film Buster, in which his character is based on Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Collins discusses the furore over...

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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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