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🗓️ 24 April 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Olympic hopeful to audacious thief – the cyclist who turned to crime. Movies influenced Tom’s biggest life decisions. Slacker film Reality Bites made him give up becoming an Olympic cyclist, and heist film Heat ‘inspired’ him to make the bizarre leap from fiction to reality. But there are only so many banks you can rob before your ego, and the FBI, start catching up with you.
Film clips: Reality Bites/Ben Stiller/Jersey Films Heat/Michael Mann/Regency Enterprises and Forward Pass
Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Louise Morris
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0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
0:06.9 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
0:09.1 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
0:13.7 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. |
0:20.7 | We're still looking for Lucan. |
0:22.1 | It's honestly one of the most powerful stories |
0:24.4 | of my lifetime. |
0:25.9 | I'm Alex Fontunzelman. |
0:27.3 | This is The Lucan Obsession. |
0:29.2 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:31.9 | You know when you rob the bank |
0:33.9 | and you walk out? |
0:35.9 | Was it everything you wanted it to be? |
0:38.8 | It was all that and more. |
0:42.5 | And my bicycle ride back, away from the bank and back to my house, that was like, oh my God, I've never experienced anything like this ever. |
0:54.7 | It was incredible. |
0:58.9 | We all search for kicks in life, a little flirting with a stranger, a night in a new city, |
1:07.1 | a weekend that cuts through the routine. |
1:11.2 | But some people crave more. |
1:14.4 | Their need to feel a rush trumps everything, |
1:19.6 | and other people can end up as collateral damage. |
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