GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY OF 1963: WHO IS TO BLAME?

The Alarmist

Comedy, History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Who’s to blame for the Great Train Robbery of 1963?

This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) tackles the Great Train Robbery of 1963 with Fact Checker Faryn Einhorn and Producer Clayton Early. Like something straight out of a movie, which it later became (and a miniseries), this dramatic heist resulted in the theft of over 2.6 million pounds in just 15 minutes. All from an overnight mail train with a lot of money and very little security. Was this the work of a post officer insider? Could out of service security carriages be to blame? Or perhaps this is what happens when two powerful gangs combine to plan the ultimate robbery!

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0:37.8	Yeah, this is like old school, Italian wedding, Catholic.
0:41.0	Yeah, you haven't been to a wedding in Paris lately, Farron?
0:44.4	Whoops.
0:45.3	I guess not.
0:47.0	I feel bad for you.
0:48.7	Didn't get invited to Zendaya.
0:51.3	I can't believe we didn't get an invite.
0:52.8	I was so rude.
0:54.5	Unbelievable that we had to find out on the internet.
0:57.2	I'm so mad.
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1:05.7	I was born with a special gift.
1:08.8	The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst-case scenario
1:14.2	in my own brain. My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. And that's why I'm uniquely qualified
1:25.5	to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters
1:29.3	and find out who's to blame.
1:34.7	They say history repeats itself.
1:37.3	Not on my watch.
1:39.0	My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith, and I am the alarmist.
1:49.6	Hey, everyone, thanks to tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about history's
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