London’s Most Prolific Bank Robber Tells His Story: Ray Bishop

[@DodgeWoodall]

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[@N1ck0A]

Now that was another superb interview, Dodge. The irony I keep seeing amongst your guests who have turned their lives around is they are invariably very intelligent and self aware, they have humility and ultimately find great solace in service. Mental health and self esteem are everything and if we paid a bit more attention to that rather than just vilifying people who had a less fortunate start to life, we might get somewhere. I’ve only got a couple of these left…crack on Dodge, who’s next? 😂

[@caincotterill5493]

Brilliant comment, it does need action early on, but not this soft allowing way they are doing nowadays. Boundaries need to be there but you need big strong men to put their arms around some of these scallops early doors🇬🇧👊🏼

[@N1ck0A]

@@caincotterill5493 agreed 👍

[@Oldschool-h1e]

Seen hundreds of podcast men talking bollox and lies , Ray is the most truthful man I know utmost respect to this man respect from Gary Dennis

[@sillyssg]

Aristotle said injustice and poverty are the parents of crime. So true. Starting to think you’re the Don of interviews on KZbin, Dodge . Great work!

[@MichaelConnollyConnolly]

Always enjoying your pod casts, you have a real gift interviewing your guests, keep the great work.

[@chrisscott6898]

I love your podcasts Dodge im 59 and not really into the internet but my operation went wrong 2 months ago and listening to these has helped me through it

[@mrwil97]

Something very likeable about Ray Bishop. A great conversationalist with such an inspiring message. Great guest.

[@mickyfinn9871]

Ive had to get up early and come and finish this amazing story. You are amazing at your Job Dodge. Always asking the question at the right time and letting Ray tell his story without butting in, what a life he has had, Love that he has now found peace and enjoying life. wishing Ray every bit of happiness on his onward journey.

[@gary_248]

Only recently discovered your channel mate and yes i may have already seen some of these guests on other channels but i find your way of interviewing and questioning up there with the best. You genuinely seem interested compared to others. Great channel you have here 👌

[@DodgeWoodall]

Thanks for the feedback Gary and glad you are enjoying the content 👍🏼👍🏼

[@gary_248]

@@DodgeWoodall I’ll always give credit where it’s due Dodge 👌

[@chrysblack7901]

Ere Dodge... Just have to say that I've stumbled upon your podcasts this week "Thought I'd seen everyone's, because I love the true crime stuff" but these ones are next level... Seen a lot of these fellas on other podcasts but your line of questioning and the rapport you have with the guest is absolute quality... Just thought I'd say that... Rays story is gripping and I'm 40 minutes in haha... Nice one 👍

[@chrysblack7901]

Im sat here with pneumonia for the last week and these are keeping me going for hours and hours 😂 Lovin it, so thanks for that mate

[@DodgeWoodall]

Lovely message Chrys 👍🏼👍🏼

[@chrysblack7901]

@DodgeWoodall cheers mate... I'm currently half way through the Kevin Lane one now "At the bit with the Turkey Teeth laugh" 🤣 I like to say things as i see them... Looking forward to binge watching a load more of these whilst I'm layed up and ill... Some quality podcasting 👍

[@mangigill6639]

Yes bro, each time I watch one of your videos and I think that is fantastic. The next one is even much better loving your channel loving you interviews top top class well done From the blind man

[@martinpower6537]

Dodge , I say this every time. The best yet !!!!! Sort of bloke you want to be in the trenches with. Plus , you don’t get enough credit. Superb.

[@jamesmorgan7500]

Great podcast Doge. Brilliant stuff pal. Keep up with the good work 👍

[@jamesb12356]

Awesome interview well done would love to sit down with Ray and talk about his life must have some crazy stories. Great to see his going in the right direction now.

[@mickyfinn9871]

Well Done Ray, amazing story telling I must say. Articulate and detail is so S.E.18. So glad to hear you turned your life around mate. Onwards.

[@raymondbishop5359]

Is this Micky Ronnies bro? If so you’re a legend buddy. Happy memories

[@mickyfinn9871]

It is Ray, hope your well and it made me smile to see you have turned life around, Kate said Hi @@raymondbishop5359

[@mickyfinn9871]

@@raymondbishop5359 it is mate, glad your living your best life, Kate says hi .onwards

[@raymondbishop5359]

What a lovely comment Mick and please give Kate my love too. Funny story Mick I last saw you at anchor and hope with Jimmy Lee and gumidge just before I embarked on my crazy journeys on the continent lol. Thank you for many a good night. Never forget the session you done at asylum. Great memories

[@robinvids2628]

love dodge's pods, best in the game!

[@DodgeWoodall]

Thanks Robin 👍🏼👍🏼

[@ziggazagga9844]

Absolutely brilliant interview...thanks guys..🙏🙏🙏

[@DodgeWoodall]

Nice one Zigga 👍🏼👍🏼

[@charlie15953]

Great interviewer and very inspirational..well done guys

[@geraldfisher5683]

Great podcast. Ray is a very interesting person. I am glad he is turning his life around. Great channel.

[@colinhaywood5470]

KEEP UP YOUR BRILLIANT PODCASTS DODGE HAPPY DAYS

[@Debauched-ly7ke]

Another awesome and intriguing interview. What very open and humble fella ray is. I like how he is turning his past into now helping other become educated and aware of how things can turn out in life. Nice one Dodge and Ray!!

[@slangerfps2854]

Everything this man said is pure truth

[@dan8495]

Bloody hell what a fantastic story. Ray seems like a real genuine modest bloke. Great podcast Dodge.

[@DodgeWoodall]

Yeah he’s a lovely bloke and glad you enjoyed it Dan 👍🏼👍🏼

[@boggybigpants9462]

What a great pod cast …..A real intelligent straight talking guy …..I really hope he makes somthing of his life

[@jailen4444]

Great interview Dodge

[@jasongoddard6152]

Great podcast mate really enjoying them. but I'd really like to see you in the other seat and tell your story to have you done any I can watch thanks jasonn

[@fernandobondebon]

The journey from the gutter to the pavement, not up a mountain. Shit! That hits hard! This was my fave so far from what I have seen, and I love them all. You have done so amazingly well to speak to these people, and showcase their movements from what they were doing to where they are now, which is super interesting to hear. I used to want to be a gangster when I was a lad and in my area I was 'in' with the faces, so I was well looked after. I was in a tiny town, amongst a few small towns, and I was 'Billy Big Bollocks'. I was never any of they guys you speak to though. I always wanted to be. These interviews highlight what lads my age aspired to be, but in actual fact, never wanted to have to deal with.

[@russellbiggs9594]

Great podcast Dodge and a big up to Ray, I can totally relate to what he’s saying having grown up in the east end of London and lived a life of crime until my late 20’s at which point practically all my friends were do long stretches inside I thought it was only a matter of time before I would be next on the list!!!! I came away from London and moved to Christchurch Dorset, which Dodge will be very familiar with given it’s 7 mins up the road from Bournemouth 7’s, and decided to try and get myself into university? Nearly 31 years later I now have a BA and a masters and have been a practicing social worker for best part of 25 years and specialise in working with young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties!!!!! It’s all doable it just depends on how bad ya wanna get off the ride that is crime??? Good luck Ray with everything you do, sounds very positive and productive 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@DodgeWoodall]

Glad you enjoyed it Russell and great work on getting your degree too 👍🏼👍🏼

[@russellbiggs9594]

@@DodgeWoodall cheers dodge, keep up with the podcasts, it’s all good 👍🏻👍🏻

[@ericlong9085]

Amazing interview

[@DodgeWoodall]

Glad you enjoyed Eric 👍🏼👍🏼

[@kingofcapp]

I assumed 2.6 mil subs, it's on that level. Well done.

[@DodgeWoodall]

Wow that’s some compliment 😊

[@brettrussell6207]

That’s 1 of the best most fascinating things I’ve ever seen. What a dude

[@HarryStarks]

I only found this podcast recently. Some terrific content.

[@stephenpitt9558]

Really enjoyed listening. Great podcasts

[@Andy-xb5kl]

What an amazing podcast what a guy great stories I was hooked from start to finish 👍

[@DodgeWoodall]

Glad you enjoyed Andy 👍🏼👍🏼

[@karlbarber1036]

That was superb, what a great interview

[@DodgeWoodall]

Nice one Karl

[@mediapartners9950]

Another winner Dodge 👍🏻👍🏻

[@dennisguccuk774]

My favourite channel I can't lie

[@richardwhite6927]

Great podcast. Only found your channel last week & have loved all of the podcasts I've binged watched so far. Keep up the fantastic work 👏

[@samanthabrookes4487]

Brilliant! Really enjoyed this

[@DodgeWoodall]

Glad you enjoyed it Samantha 👍🏼👍🏼

[@adrianmacgrath5814]

This guy is the living breathing epitome of why areas that are poverty stricken need resources in education, sport and care to guide intelligent people like this man in a good direction

[@simonostinelli187]

This was quality Dodge really really good, enjoyed this one a lot,it does help having a great fella like Ray on though but still you did a proper job at interviewing Ray, you. should have started it by saying that you do not have to say anything but anything you do say can and will be used against you lol!! All the best Dodge love from London and Dublin X X

[@DodgeWoodall]

Yeah Ray is a lovely fella with a big heart. Glad you enjoyed Simon 👍🏼👍🏼

[@BASHERSKINZ]

Great interview, it's easy to see how our poor kids end up going down this road then not being able to get out of it. I imagine if he was born under different circumstances his life would be much different, seems a nice bloke now.

[@DodgeWoodall]

Thanks Dave and yes Ray is a lovely bloke 👍🏼👍🏼

[@mickwalsh7878]

great pod , Ray has got some stories , - got do part 2 please

[@paulweir6862]

Well done for changing your life around brilliant story you can tell this fella story is real 👏👏👏

[@DodgeWoodall]

Yeah Ray has some story and he’s certainly turned his life around. He is a top man who helps many people 👍🏼👍🏼

[@Accco-mufc]

@@DodgeWoodall I’m I’m just oo

[@rd92HAMMERS]

great interview this….

[@ashleysutherland4118]

Good on you Ray loved this podcast and I’ll buy the book xxx

[@zoomwheelsbrian7782]

Nice to see ray , I was in treatment with him in 1999 🙏

[@molepup]

i did wonder if Dodge was looking forward to this one ;)

[@DodgeWoodall]

😂

[@rosemarie-karma]

Lovely, straight up guy. Can't wait for the film. I agree with what he said about Charles Bronson. I wrote to him a couple of times and he was a true gentleman. I'd like to know his thoughts on Mr Bamber

[@Harry-px9eq]

I LOVE THIS KID 💯🙏🍀🤞❤️ I REMEMBER YOU AS LITTLE TEENAGER GREAT KID🤣 NUFF RESPECT FOR TURNING IT AROUND LOVE TO MUM, COLIN AND MANDY🤞🍀💯❤️👍

[@b12zone27]

Top fella is ray is trust me was on E-wing scrubs wiv him, he can narf ave a tear up💯 used to train on the pads on the yard or shud I say train on the slidders , good to see bruva u doing your thing on road now but time u was let out, stay save ave a blessed and beautiful life

[@s4squatch1]

It's great that he changed his life around and went on to become Harry Enfield.

[@tonybenyon8289]

I thought when selecting this vid ahh not another wannabe gangster! but thoroughly enjoyed this interview

[@DodgeWoodall]

Glad you enjoyed it Tony 👍🏼👍🏼

[@stu4576]

Fair play to the guy. It's a shame the system lets so many potentially good people never reach their potential just out of principle.

[@dazzledarren1271]

The system is set up so only public school boys & pervs run things.

[@SoyaSauceMFC]

Ray was a proper naughty bod back in the day. Glad his changed his life around. His got a lot of remorse and glad his still here. Top bloke

[@diamond66ist]

He wasn't anything special , a mediocre thief at best , he has just sold his story well .

[@ashleyrobinson4940]

What have you done I’m your life.

[@chrisdrew6977]

Watch this a couple of times Interesting watch Interesting man

[@seancumpper]

Good interview

[@DodgeWoodall]

Glad you enjoyed Sean 👍🏼👍🏼

[@showmevids1984]

Keep going Ray it’s not easy to change your life around you’re a huge inspiration a shining beacon of light very impressive keep going there’s no cap on what you can do you’re worth it brother 💚

[@barondeptford2000]

Great interview. Good to hear Michael Howard identified as a shameless hypocrite - he did untold damage to the British justice system.

[@pauld3638]

What a guy loves this.

[@johnpower3572]

Nice one ray ,glad you made it mate

[@paulbarracksog359]

had to look few times def you ray

[@somisak]

Excellent channel this 👏 👍

[@DodgeWoodall]

Thanks 👌🏼

[@founderoftheessexboys1245]

Real talk 👌👌

[@nixa2633]

on that day , there wasn't that much going on in England but Ray still done alright and makes sense, far more than I thought. Sounds together now. SPG was a bastard band of cxnts good interview Dodge n the Ray Ray 😄 I'd say he goes as Ray now. I'd hope so . is Ray talking about Ash , Jonny Ash ? I did like him, didn't KNOW until years later he'd been took .RIP Jonny boy .

[@walkingwithdogs8547]

Wow for someone that talks these stories you would be 65/70 you look so amazingly young, i by far look like this now when i was in that !!!!!!!

[@jdm_john8240]

He was born in 1973 I think so all the story lines up with timelines

[@danbyrne5295]

Great interview....very inspiring guy,well done Ray

[@DodgeWoodall]

Good man Dan 👍🏼👍🏼

[@neilkannoo]

Ray a very good pal of mine and old school

[@ItsFrenzy26]

38:35 Interesting that he refers to some as reptiles.. I wonder if he knows about the actual reptilians, and lets just say their inter-connection with various ''things''..

[@fredastair3338]

I think these podcasts should be used in schools to educate kids from the guys who have been there done that , they're not bad ppl but it's so easy to be swept away in the life that if the kids have the ears or it could just help a few , it ain't gonna help all kids coz kids ain't had the life experience to make full sense of what these guys are talking about some it will deffo.

[@cgm6434]

Ray Bishop comes across really well.. very erudite, great grammar,makes you listen..he’s turned his life around which is fantastic.. but let’s be honest he did some bird…!

[@louiswilliams6192]

Great podcast Dodge as always - best in class. However, feel you should have called this guy out. Spent the whole interview giving excuses, and not really taking accountability for his choices. He didn't have it easy at all, however he chose to rob people who had would have likely faced the same difficult upbringing

[@danielroche114]

I was in Cardiff prison cat C and half of them didn't need to be there alot were locked up for nearly a year just waiting to get sentences alot of people with drug problems iv seen stabbing and suicide in just a cat C prison something needs to be done it's not were most of the people need to be

[@elijahmichaels175]

PRAISE JESUS ...GREAT VIDEO AGAIN ...

[@Valour5011]

This fella speaks very well , very logical and I love that he doesn't try to blame everything on something else when he could really Another interesting pod and interview

[@RichPickingsBT41]

Good story, made me laugh about the dog

[@davidsummer8631]

The Bejam robbery which Ray is talking about featured on a episode of the TV show Flying Squad and was controversial at the time because it has footage of the body of the robber the police shot

[@waynescales7231]

Was that a high street robbery I think I saw that one a fella that was meant to go on the job pulled out of it an some other poor chap took his spot an end up gettin shot dead by the flying squad

[@davidsummer8631]

​@@waynescales7231 Thats the one and their get away car was a gold Mercedes maybe they should have gone with a less conspicuous get away car like a ice cream van playing its jingles

[@simonmhood69]

What a life

[@gary_248]

Used to hand over a note saying give me the cash I’ve got a gun. 90% of the time it was only imitation,even used part of a Flute once. And yes I got caught eventually and done my time.

[@barclaycalvert]

Hi...i dont suppose Rays Father was called Don Bishop,old school blagger i bumped into him a few years ag in Chelsea in London pls let me know

[@Dannydawson537]

Mate you need to get mark boomer from Manchester on your podcast guy is my hero the real fuckin deal armed robber

[@adrianmacgrath5814]

What's heroic about that ?

[@Dannydawson537]

@@adrianmacgrath5814 you won’t understand been the person you are xx

[@adrianmacgrath5814]

@Danny Dawson happy chappy ☺️ correct I don't understand how a violent thug can be your hero. I find this channel interesting and some of the characters are highly intelligent organisers who could have achieved better things with better opportunities but heroic ? No. So knock yourself out , explain what makes them heroic

[@Dannydawson537]

@@jerryoshea3116 and I couldn’t agree with you more Jerry good hard working people are also hero’s in my book , and other people to many to mention and yep living in London guy probably met some scally wags shall we say 😳 if I clarify what I mean about what I said in the criminal world mark boomer is my top guy for armed blags I can tell personally guy is not a junkie or a drinker certainly doesn’t frequent pubs or white cider in blue bottles were talking the very echelon of his game ! But seen as you worded your comment so eloquently I took the time to treat you in the same manner sir 👍🏻 hope your good best wishes Danny

[@kevwalton272]

so the shoot to kill policy worked!

[@jjfrom2814]

He's from Woolwich yeah????

[@kerrybeale5450]

Just met this lovely man as he’s sat in my kitchen having a coffee

[@DodgeWoodall]

Lovely man with a massive heart 👍🏼👍🏼

[@caincotterill5493]

Sounds like Harry Henfield

[@tommyhassan3545]

A lot of things he says are exactly the same as the area I grew up in cardiff tiger bay the dock area if you were from our area you were thought of as shit by the rest of the city but it wasn’t really the case most people were great people with old school morals the police there in the old days hated the local community to the point where 5 people I knew very well were fitted up for a murder they didn’t commit

[@dennisguccuk774]

No way I bumped into this man 1 year ago I didn't know shit 🤣🤣🤣

[@nateleonclarke5894]

Get Marvin Herbert on this he’d be perfect on this

[@sleeplessinstockwell]

Oh please 🙄

[@darrenhems2291]

🙉

[@Foodlikeachef]

This man is different gravy. A true gent. Merv is a loud mouth fool.

[@simonrodgers3278]

I hope he doesn't

[@thierrypascal]

He wont get Marvin on here bro.

[@aidy1162]

Sounds like a waste of an intelligent man’s early life

[@walkingwithdogs8547]

They didn't have ARV's. back then.

[@jdm_john8240]

Yes they did. They might not have been called that but that’s what they were

[@PAPERBOYS-ek6ke]

Decent bloke

[@TonyHammer61]

The man that was shot dead by Police in Woolwich during the Bejam raid was the getaway driver who was trying to surrender and throw his firearm out of the vehicle window. The Police shot him anyway

[@REMIii3-d4w]

"I'm the Arabian prince and they're NWA"

[@walkingwithdogs8547]

Your way to young to know about SPG, and belmarsh wasn't even built back then.

[@jdm_john8240]

Yes it was, he would have served in 1992 going by his age and the timeline and belmarsh was built in 1991

[@imnotavingthat6813]

Its Harry Enfield.. Good poddy again Dodge old boy

[@DodgeWoodall]

Good man 👍🏼👍🏼

[@Rich.H68]

Helluva life, sub added.

[@ryanbane813]

Man stole a T-shirt to change his identity men now chop there tally wacker clean off to change identity

[@Foodlikeachef]

Very very dangerous individual.