2. The Hate Factory

We’re in Wandsworth Prison, where the lights never go out. And where freedom for Ronnie Biggs might only be a chess game or a rope climb away …

Meanwhile - outside the jail walls - the British establishment is shaking under the weight of working-class anger, the Profumo affair, the Swinging Sixties, and a media frenzy at the severe sentences handed down to the Great Train Robbers.

Credits:

Presenter - Daniel Mays

Producers - Phoebe McIndoe & Jude Shapiro

Executive Producer - Jack Howson

Associate Exec - Chris Pickard

Mix Engineering - Will Fitzpatrick

Additional Production Support - Ashley Clivery

Commissioning Producer - Sam Proffitt

Commissioning Executive - Louise Kattenhorn

Commissioning Editor - Richard Maddock

Contributors include:

Professor Dick Hobbs, criminologist

Noel ‘Razor’ Smith, writer and former armed robber

Brian Stone, cellmate of Biggs

A Peanut & Crumb production for Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds