The Great Train Robbery

Supporting Content

• I thought you might need a piece of good news — A Copper's Tale

  Duration: 2:10

• Time's up — A Robber's Tale

  Duration: 2:10

• Ronnie was a lover who had said goodbye to crime — A Robber's Tale

  Duration: 0:43

• Charlie Wilson - the man who loved money — A Robber's Tale

  Duration: 1:22
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• The Great Train Robbery in pictures

• Chatting to the cast

  Find out how Jim Broadbent inadvertently met the robbers, Martin Compston explains how robber Roy James was almost a world champion and Nick Moran tells us about his personal connection with Bruce Reynolds...

   

  Discover what the cast told us about their characters

• Discover the characters' real stories

  Learn more about the real characters involved in the heist.

   

  Find out about the gang members who carried out The Great Train Robbery

   

  Find out about the coppers who investigated the crime

  

• Video interview with the writer

  Chris Chibnall, the screenwriter of The Great Train Robbery, speaks to us about what inspired him to write about the infamous robbery, and how he brings to life one of the untold stories of the event.
  
  Watch the interview on BBC Media Centre