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===Television=== * In February 2006, [[Channel 4]] aired a documentary about the 1981 plot to kidnap Biggs and take him to [[Barbados]]. The programme featured a dramatisation of the attempt and an interview with ex-soldier John Miller, one of the men responsible. In the programme, security consultant Patrick King, who led the team, claimed that the kidnapping may have in fact been a [[deniability|deniable operation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=3|title=Kidnap Ronnie Biggs- Documentary|date=9 February 2006|work=[[Channel 4]]|access-date=21 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204215646/http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=3|archive-date=4 February 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> * In 2012, [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] aired a documentary about the robbery based on a new book, ''The Great Train Robbery: The definitive account''. The documentary was co-produced for [[ITV Studios]] by [[Stewart Richards]], the 1980s [[Art film|arthouse film]] producer, who also co-wrote the book.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ITV boards Great Train Robbery documentary |url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/itv-boards-great-train-robbery-documentary/5045996.article |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=Broadcast |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Richards |first=Stewart |title=The Great Train Robbery: Crime of the century: The definitive account |publisher=[[Orion Publishing Group|Orion]] |year=2013 |isbn=9780297864400 |location=London}}</ref> * On 18 December 2013, the day Ronnie Biggs died, [[BBC One]] aired the first of a two-part dramatisation ''[[The Great Train Robbery (2013 TV series)|The Great Train Robbery]]''. Episode one, ''A Robber's Tale'' details the organisation of and successful completion of the robbery. Episode two, ''A Copper's Tale'' follows the police investigation into the crime and subsequent arrest of many of the perpetrators.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/51/the-great-train-robbery-a-robbers-tale.html|title=The Great Train Robbery β A Robber's Tale|date=18 December 2013|work=[[BBC]]|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915043644/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/51/the-great-train-robbery-a-robbers-tale.html|archive-date=15 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> * In 2019 in episode 6 of part 1 of the Spanish TV programme ''The Money Heist'', there is mention of "the Glasgow train robbery".
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