118. The Hippy Smuggler, P2
Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling
BBC
4.3 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In part two, Gary finally has to face the music. Having caught the attention of not only Pablo Escobar but the CIA too, things are about to get a *whole* lot scarier. Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at lauraandiain@bbc.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | The 8th of August, 1963, a gang of thieves hold up a British Royal Mail train on its way from Glasgow to London. |
| 0:16.0 | More than two million pounds was stolen, and Ronnie Biggs was the most famous face of the great train robbery. |
| 0:22.8 | Daniel Mays reveals the true story of Ronnie Biggs. |
| 0:26.4 | A train robbery, a prison escape and 36 years on the run. |
| 0:30.6 | Gangster Presents the story of Ronnie Biggs. |
| 0:33.9 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:50.1 | You're listening to Murder They Wrote with Lord Whitmore and Ian Sterling, |
| 0:54.0 | a podcast where we indulge our favorite pastime talking about true crime. |
| 0:57.8 | This is the hippie smuggler, part two. |
| 1:06.2 | Bonjour, adieu. |
| 1:13.5 | Hi, hello, and welcome everyone to part two of my two-part case on Gary Betzner. |
| 1:17.2 | You bet it's a second part and you bet you're going to enjoy it. |
| 1:20.5 | If you haven't listened to part one, I do think go back. You can't go straight into part two. |
| 1:22.0 | Go back. |
| 1:22.6 | If it's back to the future or Rocky, I'd say you can watch part two. |
| 1:26.7 | Scream, you can go straight in with part two. I would say, I would say that as far as two parts go, they are quite disparate. Like, it's the same. I'm saying that I don't know what's going to happen now. It's sort of, he sort of like completely changes and becomes a new person. Yeah, but part one is the backstory. |
| 1:44.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.6 | But I'm saying if you can't be bothered with all that, maybe don't listen to part one actually. No, listen to part one. Get stuck in, get stuck in, get stuck in. We want the listens. Well, listen, just in case someone, maybe someone has listened to part one, but it was a while ago. They've forgotten. Laura, please. It was last three week maybe. |
| 1:58.7 | But maybe they've had a few weeks to themselves. |
| 2:01.8 | Would you like to do a little recap |
| 2:03.1 | and what happened in Part 1, Please, Laura, please. |
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