Name: Mrs. Biggs
Released: 2012-09-05T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Sheridan Smith, Daniel Mays, Caroline Goodall

TV Show · Drama · Crime

On August 8, 1963, Britain awakens to the news of the biggest robbery in the nation’s history. The Royal Mail train from Glasgow to London has been hijacked, and a gang has made off with millions in cash. In a role that won her a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, Sheridan Smith (Black Work) stars as Mrs. Charmian Biggs, naïve wife of one of the robbers, Ronnie Biggs (Daniel Mays, Line of Duty).

2012 · 1h 4m

Starring Sheridan Smith, Daniel Mays, Caroline Goodall

Director Paul Whittington

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

When Charmian meets Ronnie Biggs on a train, it is love at first sight. Despite her family's work to keep the two apart, Charmian and Ronnie run away together. When the couple struggles to get by, they turn to charming Bruce Reynolds for a loan.

1h 4m
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Charmian must raise her young family alone after Ronnie's imprisonment.

42m
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

With Ronnie in prison, Charmian begins an affair with Ruby Wright's son, Alan. But when the unexpected happens, and Ronnie breaks out of prison, Charmian tries to reunite her family.

43m
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Having changed their names and all the money from the robbery gone, Ronnie and Charmian relocate to Melbourne and get jobs. But when Ronnie's picture shows up in a Melbourne magazine, he must go into hiding.

44m
EPISODE 5

Episode 5

Using the money from the Packer deal, Charmian is able to buy herself a home for herself and the boys, but she still desperately misses Ronnie. Ronnie barely scrapes by in a suburb in Rio de Janeiro; to make some money he tries to sell his life story to a journalist.

1h 3m