1964: Escaped GREAT TRAIN ROBBER - Would You Help Him? | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
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- "In an escape like this, whose side are you instinctively on - the escaped man, or the police?"
Charlie Wilson - a member of the Great Train Robbery gang - escaped from HMP Winson Green on the 12th August, after spending just four months in prison. He remains at large.
How do the British public feel about Wilson? If they spotted him on the street, would they inform the police - or would they help him? Magnus Magnusson interviews members of the public to find out.
This clip is from Tonight, originally broadcast 21 August, 1964.
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The guy at the beginning was absolutely brilliant, if I may talk loosely!
If one may talk loosely 🙂
I'm quite surprised by their sympathies towards him. They see his escape as something romantic and to be admired. I wonder what todays attitudes would be.
Talking of Great Train Robbers, I used to see Buster Edwards selling flowers outside Waterloo Station in the late 70s. He seemed like a nice man!
One gets the impression that a few of the interviewees championing Wilson are under the delusion he’s some sort of Robin Hood type folk hero!
In the interests of context the train driver during the robbery, Jack Mills, suffered severe head injuries from the gang and, beset by recurring trauma, never fully recovered. No, I certainly wouldn’t have helped Wilson.
Robin Hood killed loads of people, mostly from the church, in the tales. the Disney version of him cut those bits out
@@reknakfarg7252 Ah yes but then Robin Hood only kills _bad_ guys lest we forget!
How we miss the cut glass English accent ! ☹️
How well spoken and polite people were then!
I suspect it's Chelsea, Kings Road area 4:42 sort of gives it away. I lived there for 6 years and there are well spoken people there but I found them quite aloof and haughty. There are good things to the class divide and bad things I suppose.
The BBC only ever spoke to posh people back then.
Good editing
That posh guy at that start was the most non-committal, morally ambivalent person I have ever seen or heard.. hilarious !
He instantly reminded me of a Peter Sellers character :)
Probably related to Boris Johnston 😂
@@OlafProt Johnson.
Would be the right qualities for a Politician
like all of the upper class
It was strange the way they were romanticised. I wonder what caused that. The drivers life was irreparably altered by their attack on him. If their crime was purely money then never mind, it’s all insured, but someone got badly hurt.
I remember seeing Buster Edwards selling flowers under Waterloo Station in the early/mid 80s, my Aunt made a point of telling me. I said hello a couple of times. 😅
4:40 1st time I’ve heard mr bean speak , WOW
highly entertainling ..i think we see the liberal morals of the educated middle classes the man early on in this piece and then the young woman ..find it somewhat exciting that someone should be so daring ...as if it was a novel or a movie plot ...Remarkable insight
And if he offered you tickets to the next Genesis tour would you accept them? 💐
What if he offered you cake?
Took a few minutes to get the joke. Only problem is that was Buster Edwards, not this fella.
Brian Jones and Ian Stewart at 3:50
It is shocking that these people have no respect for the law. I wonder how they would feel if they were the victim of crime. Mind you, I don't have a posh accent.
In Germany it's not criminal offense to escape from prison
Back in the early 80's , a friend of mine would live in Brazil in the winters to teach English and party with Ronnie Biggs.
I must just say that I particularly enjoyed the moment when that interviewer fellow was interrupted by that posh fellow and he said to him:
"I've started so I'll finish!"
So terribly, terribly refreshing, don't you think?
I would help him!
1:29 Ding dong! ❤
This guy thinks he's James Bond
(1:40).. But it's not *his* money, madam.
Good gracious me!
Didn't get the expected, wouldn't be broadcast today 😂 Up the 60's 👍
Yes, it's nice to hear people speaking articulately rather than saying "like" after every two words.
@@user-qc1su4ty6p Yes , absolutely. At last ! Someone else has noticed.
Thank you.
4:39 It's as if an alien has beamed down to earth and is passing himself off as a human. I see you there, alien.
A crime did not left to be a crime only for sympathise with the criminal. Moreover, I have been amazed how the people stay on the fence and they look undecised, it is so hard to have solid values, isn't it?
The interviewer isn't interviewing, he's educating the interviewees in "appropriate behaviour" - just like the BBC have always done. A detestable organisation that I hope I live to see broken up into little pieces and every man jack of them fired.
Yes, we don't want none of that food for thought malarkey round here, heaven knows what will will 'appen if the hoi polloi start thinking.
Awww, poor Ian. Does the nasty BBC make you feel inadequate and unintelligent?
@michael pennington
Were you a lonely child at school who was bullied, due to effete sexual fantasies?
My guess is yes.