I just watched this on Amazon Prime, having watched Secrets of the Krays on the BBC when it was on TV a few weeks ago (now it's only available on BritBox) and there were definitely some similarities as both series had Courtney and Flanagan in the cast talking about the Krays - in fact, Courtney made essentially the same comment about the people he invited to Ronnie Kray's funeral in both programmes, describing the assembled gangsters as 'tasty people'! It was interesting to hear a different perspective on things though - the Geordie presenter of this programme met frequently with the Krays when they were alive and as his job was at one time to make T-shirts, he's the person who's mainly responsible for the famous/infamous 'Free Reggie Kray' T-shirts and was involved with the Krays charity drives to support child cancer victims, however cynical such PR might have been, so he's quite a key associate.
I'd heard that Ronnie Kray had a feud with Peter Sutcliffe when they were both at Parkhurst Hospital for the criminally insane too but it was good to hear the details about that too.
Definitely recommended.
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