IFS Unlocked: History Box - The Princess Anne Kidnap Part 3

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Comedy, Sports & Recreation, Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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(Rec: 13/2/24) Anne visits a hospital, a boxer saves the day, broadsheet coverage, the royal taping machine, and we meet Miss Sammy Scott.

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0:00.0	Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it.
0:05.9	This is Toffly Time Machine. I'm Andy Hot Buddy Dawson, Pow, Pow, Pow.
0:09.4	I'm Sam Nifty Delaney, so what?
0:11.3	Welcome along. It's the latest episode in the history box.
0:15.9	Look at the kidnap.
0:18.9	Some would say assassination attempt on Princess Anne back in 1974.
0:27.1	I think we'd covered the Tatler version of events that we were looking at.
0:34.2	The day Princess Anne survived a dramatic kidnapping attempt it was called.
0:39.0	I'm just quickly scrolling down.
0:41.6	There's some stuff about the bodyguard.
0:45.9	Jim Beaton.
0:49.1	Good bodyguard name.
0:50.9	Good bodyguard name, yeah.
0:53.5	Speaking of names, I noticed last week that which club was it now?
0:58.5	I think it might have been Air United in Scotland, who'd sack their manager.
1:04.1	It might have been with Rovers, not sure, sat their manager, and the careticket manager was former player Don Cowie.
1:10.9	Don Cowie. Don Cowie.
1:12.1	I thought that's a 1970s name, if ever I heard one.
1:15.4	Yeah.
1:15.8	But he's not a 1970s guy.
1:19.0	There's a lot of dons around, wasn't there?
1:22.6	He was born in 1983.
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