Mrs Biggs

Drama

Drama

`Mrs Biggs' tells the true story of the woman behind Britain's most famous villain, train robber Ronald Biggs. The drama follows the journey of Charmian Brent from naive young woman to a reluctant gangster's moll. As a frustrated young woman on a train, Charmian is chatted up by tall, handsome Londoner Ron Biggs, nearly 10 years her senior. She becomes smitten with him and they begin dating, until her father forbids it upon discovering that Ron has been convicted of petty crimes. The couple, though, decide to elope (with money stolen from Charmian's employer) and hide out before being caught. After Ron's imprisonment, now the parents of young children, the Biggs are unable to come up with the deposit for a house they want, In order to secure the money, Ron plots with a friend to plan one of the most famous crimes in British history - the Great Train Robbery of 1963.