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Estimated from 7 chart positions in 7 markets.
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- 🇬🇧GB · True Crime#43100K to 300K
- 🇯🇵JP · True Crime#7110K to 30K
- 🇹🇭TH · True Crime#4310K to 30K
- 🇭🇰HK · True Crime#553K to 10K
- 🇮🇪IE · True Crime#973K to 10K
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64K to 193K🎙 ~2x weekly·84 episodes·Last published 2w ago - Monthly Reach
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127K to 386K🇬🇧78%🇯🇵8%🇹🇭8%+4 more - Active Followers
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51K to 154K
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5. The Magic Balloon Gang
Jun 4, 2026
29m 51s
4. The Slip-Up
May 28, 2026
35m 03s
3. The Land of Milk and Honey
May 21, 2026
31m 37s
2. The Hate Factory
May 14, 2026
34m 08s
1. The Big One
May 7, 2026
30m 07s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/4/26 |  5. The Magic Balloon Gang✨ | fugitivecrime+4 | Michael ‘Breiti’ BreitkopfBruce Henry Leitman+7 | BBC Radio 5 LiveDaily Express+2 | — | Ronnie Biggsfugitive+6 | — | 29m 51s | |
| 5/28/26 | 4. The Slip-Up✨ | footballmilitary dictatorship+4 | Ursula CrockerChris Crocker+4 | Daily ExpressRadio 5 Live+1 | — | Ronnie BiggsGreat Train Robbery+6 | — | 35m 03s | |
| 5/21/26 | 3. The Land of Milk and Honey✨ | Great Train Robberyoutlaw life+5 | Ian DowdingDoctor Sharonna Pearl+3 | BBC Radio 5 LiveA Peanut & Crumb production+1 | — | Great Train Robberyfreedom+6 | — | 31m 37s | |
| 5/14/26 | 2. The Hate Factory✨ | prison lifeworking-class anger+4 | Noel ‘Razor’ SmithBrian Stone | Wandsworth PrisonBBC Radio 5 Live+2 | — | Wandsworth PrisonRonnie Biggs+5 | — | 34m 08s | |
| 5/7/26 | 1. The Big One✨ | true crimerobbery+3 | — | BBC Radio 5 LiveA Peanut & Crumb | — | Great Train RobberyRonnie Biggs+5 | — | 30m 07s | |
| 5/4/26 | Introducing Gangster Presents: The Story of Ronnie Biggs✨ | true crimefugitive+4 | — | BBC Radio 5 LivePeanut & Crumb+1 | — | Ronnie BiggsGreat Train Robber+5 | — | 2m 15s | |
| 4/9/26 |  6. Losing Face✨ | Triadsdeportation+3 | — | Wo Shing WoBBC Radio 5 Live+1 | — | Georgie PaiWo Shing Wo+5 | — | 28m 26s | |
| 4/2/26 | 5. Video Wars✨ | video warsChinatowns+5 | — | Wo Shing WoBBC Radio 5 Live+1 | ManchesterGlasgow | video warsChinatowns+6 | — | 30m 38s | |
| 3/27/26 | 4. The Northern Powerhouse✨ | Triad gangscrime+4 | — | Wo Shing Wo | GlastonburySouthampton+2 | Georgie PaiTriad+6 | — | 30m 59s | |
| 3/20/26 | 3. Sleeping Tiger✨ | crimegangs+4 | — | Hampshire Constabulary | Hong KongSouthampton+1 | Georgie Paiprotection racket+7 | — | 26m 55s | |
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| 3/13/26 | 2. The Hong Kong Connection✨ | Triadsorganized crime+5 | — | Wo Shing WoGolden Harvest+3 | Hong KongBritain+1 | Triadsorganized crime+8 | — | 29m 33s | |
| 3/6/26 | 1. Enter The Godfather✨ | TriadsChinese diaspora+4 | — | Wo Shing WoBBC Radio 5 Live | — | TriadsGeorgie Pai+5 | — | 27m 57s | |
| 3/4/26 | Trailer✨ | Triadscrime+5 | — | Wo Shing Wo | — | Georgie PaiTriad+8 | — | 3m 00s | |
| 12/19/25 |  6. Starcrossed Lovers✨ | loveloss+3 | — | BBC StudiosBBC Sounds+1 | — | AmyJoe+6 | — | 39m 32s | |
| 12/12/25 | 5. “Love You”✨ | drug smugglingloyalty+3 | — | BBC StudiosBBC Sounds+1 | — | drug smugglingloyalty+3 | — | 33m 56s | |
| 12/5/25 | 4. Illegal Highs✨ | addictionprisons+4 | — | BBC Radio 5 LiveBBC Studios+1 | — | Spiceaddiction+4 | — | 35m 03s | |
| 11/28/25 | 3. Just This Once | Smuggle one package of drugs into prison for her boyfriend Joe and he’ll be able to pay off his debts. That’s what Amy needs to do and then she can concentrate on planning their future together, or so she thinks. It’s not long till he’ll be released and then they can have the proper relationship she dreams of.Joe insists the smuggling is just a one-off, but will Amy do what he's asking?Credits Host: Amber Haque Producer: Becca Bryers Sound design: Ivor Manley Executive producer: Joe KentA BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live | 33m 09s | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | 2. The Boy From Bradford | Amy is risking it all for a relationship with career criminal Joe - but who is the boy from Bradford she’s falling in love with.Host Amber Haque delves deep into his past and jumps down the rabbit hole of #prisontok as she attempts to make sense of the illicit affair and who’s really in control.Credits Host: Amber Haque Producer: Becca Bryers Sound design: Andy Fell Executive producer: Joe KentA BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 LiveDetails of information and support with addiction is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline | 34m 48s | ||||||
| 11/14/25 | 1. When Amy Met Joe | The last thing mental health nurse Amy expected to encounter when she took a job at Lindholme prison was someone offering romance. Then she met Joe - cheeky, brimming with charisma and a career criminal. But surely she knows better than to listen to his relentless attempts to charm her….Credits Host: Amber Haque Producer: Becca Bryers Sound design: Ivor Manley Executive producer: Joe KentA BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live | 33m 13s | ||||||
| 9/12/25 |  The Black Widow: 6. Til Death Do Us Part | Linda spends the next 18 years behind bars with some of the UK's most notorious female killers. She shares stories of a life inside, a shock prison wedding and returning back to reality and a life on the straight and narrow.With her criminal past behind her, Linda reflects on the effect of her crimes both on the victims, and on her two children left to grow up without their parents.Credits Presenter: Livvy Haydock Series Producer: Kate West Producers: Patrick Kiteley and Matthew Bone Journalism Assistants: Tim Fernley and Ellie Dover Drama Writer: Paul Jones Sound Design: Richard Hannaford Assistant Commissioner: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor: Richard Maddock Editors and Executive Producers: Carl Johnston and Clare Fordham | 29m 19s | ||||||
| 9/5/25 | The Black Widow: 5. Spilt Milk | After being released from prison, Linda's living the quiet life catching up on lost time with her two kids.Trouble soon finds her again as Ronnie Cook's sentence also comes to an end. When Linda brings Ronnie home for a visit, the couple are confronted by a hitman and Linda's small kitchen is turned into a brutal murder scene.But as police begin to question Linda, they discover that the 'The Black Widow' could have her boyfriend's blood on her hands in more ways than one.Credits Presenter: Livvy Haydock Series Producer: Kate West Producers: Patrick Kiteley and Matthew Bone Journalism Assistants: Tim Fernley and Ellie Dover Drama Writer: Paul Jones Sound Design: Richard Hannaford Assistant Commissioner: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor: Richard Maddock Editors and Executive Producers: Carl Johnston and Clare Fordham | 30m 54s | ||||||
| 8/29/25 | The Black Widow: 4. The Two Minute Rule | A partial fingerprint at the scene of a violent robbery puts the flying squad on Linda's trail. While they watch, she continues to live the high life funding by a spate of terrifying armed raids.A team of officers recall the day they caught Linda red handed at yet another Post Office heist, and when Linda finds herself at the wrong end of the barrel of a gun, she knows her time is up.But her time inside takes an unexpected turn, as she finds a life for herself inside Holloway.Credits Presenter: Livvy Haydock Series Producer: Kate West Producers: Patrick Kiteley and Matthew Bone Journalism Assistants: Tim Fernley and Ellie Dover Drama Writer: Paul Jones Sound Design: Richard Hannaford Assistant Commissioner: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor: Richard Maddock Editors and Executive Producers: Carl Johnston and Clare Fordham | 28m 28s | ||||||
| 8/22/25 | The Black Widow: 3. Cops and Robbers | Linda discovers Ronnie's dark side as he lets slip a shocking secret about the day Mickey died.She can't leave Ronnie, because he's too dangerous. But luckily for Linda, the police solve that problem for her - catching Ronnie red handed trying to pull off a million pound heist.With Ronnie out of the way, Linda begins her mission to become an armed robber in an underworld ruled by men.Credits Presenter: Livvy Haydock Series Producer: Kate West Producers: Patrick Kiteley and Matthew Bone Journalism Assistants: Tim Fernley and Ellie Dover Drama Writer: Paul Jones Sound Design: Richard Hannaford Assistant Commissioner: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor: Richard Maddock Editors and Executive Producers: Carl Johnston and Clare Fordham | 30m 23s | ||||||
| 8/15/25 | The Black Widow: 2. A Widow's Vow | Linda, Mickey and the kids are living the high life when he agrees to take on a job with a new gang - a raid on a cash collection at a London supermarket just before Christmas.As Linda waits at home, armed police are lying in wait outside the supermarket. When the police rush towards them, the rest of Mickey's team flee, leaving him alone on the crowded street clutching his weapon. He is shot dead.When Linda hears of her husband's death something inside her snaps and at his graveside she makes a vow to provide for their two young kids by carrying on his "work" as an armed robber. But before she can get started, another man comes on the scene - someone altogether more deadly and dangerous.Credits Presenter: Livvy Haydock Series Producer: Kate West Producers: Patrick Kiteley and Matthew Bone Journalism Assistants: Tim Fernley and Ellie Dover Drama Writer: Paul Jones Sound Design: Richard Hannaford Assistant Commissioner: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor: Richard Maddock Editors and Executive Producers: Carl Johnston and Clare Fordham | 28m 30s | ||||||
| 8/8/25 | The Black Widow: 1. Spinning the Web | Linda Welford was raised in London's East End in the 1960s; a tight and tough community with a reputation for a thriving criminal underworld, ruled with an iron fist by gangsters like the Kray twins.One of nine children, Linda lived a sheltered life with her family in Stepney until she met armed robber Mickey Calvey. This was the so-called golden age of armed robbery and Mickey was making a fortune sticking up banks and Post Offices with a sawn-off shotgun.When Mickey and Linda got married, she was allowed a front seat to Mickey's 'work,' as his gang begin planning robberies around their kitchen table. Not content with just making the teas, Linda starts to make suggestions and finds she has a taste for a life of crime.Credits Presenter: Livvy Haydock Series Producer: Kate West Producers: Patrick Kiteley and Matthew Bone Journalism Assistants: Tim Fernley and Ellie Dover Drama Writer: Paul Jones Sound Design: Richard Hannaford Assistant Commissioner: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor: Richard Maddock Editors and Executive Producers: Carl Johnston and Clare Fordham | 30m 52s | ||||||
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7 placements across 7 markets.
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7 placements across 7 markets.