Nicola Tallent
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18,235 appearances
152 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 5d ago
Nicola Tallent’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was really kind of being schooled by himself, really, as a youngster.
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And it was interesting, really, because he went on to direct others to do these robberies, maybe more armed robberies and higher-end robberies, but he did have that knowledge, like he wasn't one of those directors who...
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our company managers who was sitting back never having pulled up his sleeves and got dirty and what he was asking other people to do he wouldn't have been able to he wouldn't mean somebody who could have pulled the wool over his eyes he wouldn't have accepted excuses if things went wrong because he knew exactly how to do these things himself and I think the timing as well like you know he was jailed for the first time there about 1987 when he was 18 but within the sort of
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the three years when he was released, you're talking the early 90s.
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And that's really when drugs become a career choice for young people like him.
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There's actually, you know, a market, a growing market.
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He can see that and he can sort of start to gather around him a gang of pals that are from his neighborhood and are going to be loyal.
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He walked away and he talked about it a lot.
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I mean, he celebrated it.
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There was a party that night in Finglas.
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And, you know, people would tell you that for quite a long time after it, every time he bought somebody a drink would say, that's on Paul Williams in the Sunday World.
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And of course, the early 90s, that was the golden era of cannabis.
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It was the most popular drug in the country and it was where the money was to be made that would later be replaced by cocaine.
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I think, you know, at the turn of the new millennium, cocaine had certainly become the much more popular drug and where much more money was to be made.
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But I always find it interesting to see how Marlowe set up a business model.
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He approached the whole industry in a business like fashion.
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He used the skill set he had, which was in,
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getaway driving plus robbery skill set he learned as a very young teenager and he applied that to bigger robberies and with that money you know he'd buy from the wholesalers he didn't in his mind get it easy he had to work hard for everything he earned and
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Compared to the likes of John Gilligan, who, of course, got lucky because his first drug shipment was financed by the general and the general was killed before he had to pay him back.
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So Gilligan walked away with the profits and the investment.
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