The Great Train Robbery | Cat and Mouse | 3

British Scandal

Wondery

Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Bruce Reynolds is rich. But he’s also a wanted man. An entire nation wants to know where he is. But there's one person who wants to find him more than any other: Tommy Butler. A relentless detective who’s solved more cases than anyone else in his squad, Butler won’t let anything come between him and the capture of Britain’s biggest thief. And so the hunt begins.

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0:00.0	Hello, Prime Members! You can listen to British scandal one week early and ad-free
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0:10.4	Today's episode contains some strong language. If that is not for you, there are plenty of episodes
0:15.6	in our back catalogue that are PG or... they're about.
0:24.7	Hi, Alice. Hiya, what are you scribbling there?
0:26.9	Well, I've been thinking about this. We're missing a trick here. We're only getting three episodes
0:30.4	out of the Great Train robbery. Right. But all the other great things get massive TV shows that
0:34.3	just run and run for years. The Great British Bake Off, Great British Sewing Bee, The Great Pottery
0:40.0	Throwdown. Yeah. Well, this could be a TV format. How would that work? Well, easy. Twelve weeks.
0:47.2	You get members of the public, some of them with terrible substories, and we make them
0:51.8	rob and burgle various different things. Right. Okay. Like what? Well, one could be like a
0:57.4	secure Corván one week, then it's the Bank of England, and it's a heartwarming tale of how anyone
1:03.2	from any background could overpower innocent public sector staff and win millions of pounds.
1:09.1	I really wasn't sure, but I actually love it. Should we pitch it? Yeah, obviously the only thing is
1:13.9	finding a good host. Oh, yeah, good point. You sort of need someone menacing to kind of fit the
1:18.0	themes on street wise. You won't mess with intimidating a sort of twinkle in their eye that says
1:23.8	I've seen stuff. Yeah, full time geese are. Exactly. Probably still proof-leaf. Yeah, it's proven it.
1:33.2	November the 8th, 1968, 630 AM. Villa Cap Martin, Turkey, Devon. Bruce Reynolds blinks open his
1:43.6	eyes and stretches his legs beneath the duck down duvet beside him, Franny Dozes. In silk pajamas,
1:51.7	he pads downstairs. In the living room, his son Nick is sitting inches from the TV, the sound of
1:57.9	cartoons emanating from the glowing screen. Reynolds prepares a cafeteria,
2:03.4	entails the sharp aroma of fresh coffee. Around him are the dishes from last night's dinner.
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