Great Train Robbery 30th anniversary

Title

Great Train Robbery 30th anniversary

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

8 Aug 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:21

Description

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 was working on the train; robber Bruce Reynolds on how he got into crime; robber Charlie Wilson speaking in 1980 on having to pay people to let him stay with them to lie low; robber Ronnie Biggs talks about living in exile in Brazil.

Contributors

Buster Edwards; Bruce Reynolds; Charlie Wilson; Ian Fenn; Ronald Biggs

Keywords

Deaths; Crime; Criminals; Imprisonment; Robbery; Brazil; Great Train Robbery (1963); Anniversaries; Jack Mills

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