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World Service,16 May 2022,40 mins

Bike-riding bank robber, part 1

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Olympic hopeful to audacious thief – the cyclist who turned to crime. Movies influenced Tom’s biggest life decisions. Slacker film Reality Bites made him give up becoming an Olympic cyclist, and heist film Heat ‘inspired’ him to make the bizarre leap from fiction to the reality of committing a crime. But there are only so many banks you can rob before your ego, and the FBI, start catching up with you. Film clips: Reality Bites/Ben Stiller/Jersey Films Heat/Michael Mann/Regency Enterprises and Forward Pass Get in touch: [email protected] Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Louise Morris (Photo: Tom Justice. Credit: Courtesy of Tom Justice)

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