3. The Land of Milk and Honey

What price freedom? And why should you never wear crocodile shoes when you’re 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 … 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 Producer - Sam Proffitt

Commissioning Executive - Louise Kattenhorn

Commissioning Editor - 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 ‘Razor’ Smith, writer and former armed robber

Brian Stone, cellmate of Biggs

A Peanut & Crumb production for Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds