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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Noel ‘Razor’ Smith talks through his journey from South London’s streets to becoming one of Britain’s most prolific armed robbers, serving over 30 years behind bars. He opens up about the violence of 70s detention centres, life inside with Charlie Bronson, and the chaos of the criminal underworld that earned him eight life sentences. Noel also reflects on the loss that forced him to change, and how writing helped him turn his life around.
This is the eventful life of Mr Noel ‘Razor’ Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | Suddenly when I'm robbing, I'm f***in' it. |
| 0:03.1 | Everybody has to do what I say, and it turned out I had a right neck frisk. |
| 0:06.5 | What was the buzz like robbing a bank? |
| 0:08.7 | It's the best feeling of the world. |
| 0:10.1 | Seriously, I still miss it. |
| 0:13.4 | I was a very frightening man. |
| 0:15.2 | Robbing places never terrified me. |
| 0:16.9 | He gave me a buzz, and it becomes an addiction. |
| 0:19.4 | You can't stop it. |
| 0:20.3 | I was on so many |
| 0:21.0 | robberies that they all become like one I was mentally ill there's no doubt about it got |
| 0:25.3 | diagnosed later on as a psychopath I got arrested at gunpoint first I got three years five |
| 0:30.7 | years 12 years then eight life sentences eight life sentences 35 years behind bars you. I went into the system as a wild lunatic kid. I became manic and then what I'd done was I ripped the zipper off my jeans and ripped out my veins in my wrist. My God. Did you ever come across Charlie Bromson? Yeah, I love Charlie. He's Katrina. He became our sort of hero because he was our one weapon against the system. |
| 0:55.0 | I wanted to fight everybody, I wanted to fight the system. I was involved in a riot the first day I got to dover. |
| 1:01.0 | People would know you for who you are and what you did and they gave you a lot of respect. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, they weren't really respect, it was fear. |
| 1:07.0 | Prison runs on paranoia and violent. |
| 1:10.0 | How do you look back at that and think I've spent |
| 1:11.7 | 35 years behind bars? With great regret. If I went back into prison again and they gave me a |
| 1:17.7 | sentence, a big sentence, I would. Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. I'm your host Dodge |
| 1:26.7 | and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival. On this podcast, I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives. Do us a favour and hit that follow button and be sure to check us out on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at Dodge Woodall, where we've now had over 100 million views. |
| 1:44.4 | Razor, welcome to the show, mate. |
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