Charles Bronson: Britain’s Most Dangerous Prisoner | #415

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

What do you do with a prisoner so unhinged that he’s been kicked out of 120 prisons to date? How have Britain’s most secure facilities dealt with a man who could explode in a frenzy of brutal violence and destruction at any moment? What happens to a man who spends more than 25 years in solitary confinement? And most importantly: now that Britain’s most infamous inmate has rebranded as an artist, poet, and man of peace, will it ever be safe to let him out?

This is the story of the larger-than-life British institution, who once stripped naked, greased himself in butter, and ran at a dozen armed guards – just for the love of the brawl.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to RedHanded early and ad free.
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0:17.2	I'm Hannah. I'm Sauruti.
0:19.0	And welcome to Red Handen.
0:21.6	Where, quite often when we do accents, we need tuning forks.
0:25.6	I think this episode needs a tuning fork.
0:27.6	Oh no. A dangerous, pointy, tuning fork.
0:30.6	Tuning knife.
0:31.6	Oh, I'm going to play it for you.
0:35.6	I love helping people, especially children and all folks.
0:41.3	Now they keep drumming it into the public. I'm a danger.
0:46.3	Well, who am I a danger too?
0:49.3	I've never been a danger to the public.
0:52.3	I love people. Love them. I love the public. I love people.
0:55.0	Love them. I love the world.
0:57.0	I'm not a filthy terrorist or a rapist or a murderer.
1:02.0	So who am I dangerous to as I?
1:05.0	My dangerousness was in the prison, in the asylums.
1:10.0	Nearly 50 years of my life in boxes and cages.
1:15.2	I want to go home.
1:16.6	I'm an artist, born again.
1:19.0	I hate violence.
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