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Radio 5 Live,07 May 2026,31 mins,
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What price freedom? And why should you never wear crocodile shoes when you鈥檙e on the run?! While the rest of the Great Train Robbery gang are serving thirty-year sentences, the runaways are enjoying the delights of mid-sixties Paris and Las Vegas. But the life of an outlaw is not all about cabaret clubs, Frank Sinatra residencies, and sweet freedom 鈥� painful plastic surgery and familial misery is part of the package too. Credits: Presenter - Daniel Mays Producers - Phoebe McIndoe & Jude Shapiro Executive Producer - Jack Howson Associate Exec - Chris Pickard Mix Engineering - Will Fitzpatrick Additional Production Support - Ashley Clivery Commissioning鈥疨roducer - Sam Proffitt Commissioning鈥疎xecutive -鈥疞ouise Kattenhorn Commissioning鈥疎ditor - Richard Maddock Contributors include: Ian Dowding, nephew of Biggs Doctor Sharonna Pearl, historian and face theorist Nick Reynolds, sculptor and son of the Great Train Robbery gang leader Noel 鈥楻azor鈥� Smith, writer and former armed robber Brian Stone, cellmate of Biggs A Peanut & Crumb production for Radio 5 Live and 麻豆社 Sounds
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