Sheridan Smith
Charmian Biggs
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- 1. S1 E1 Sep 5, 2012
- The beginning of a passionate love affair begins on a London train.
- 2. S1 E2 Sep 12, 2012
- Ronnie returns from his tree-felling job and Charmian realizes that he has been involved in the Great Train Robbery. This is confirmed when he shows her his share: £147,000.
- 3. S1 E3 Sep 19, 2012
- Ronnie plans to escape from prison but while he has been inside many things have changed.
Mrs Biggs. Mrs Biggs is a 2012 British television series based on the true story of the wife of the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs. The series covers Mrs Charmian Biggs' journey from naïve young woman to Biggs' wife and the mother of three young sons. Money worries force her husband to ask for a loan from Bruce Reynolds, planner of one of ...
- The Great Train Robbery
- A New Life in Australia
- Packer Helped Secure Release from Custody
- Hate Letters Sent After Son's Death
- Story Sold to Fund Fight For Freedom
- 'I Learned to Get Over Ron A Long Time Ago'
- Living with Pain of Husband's Notoriety
It was August 1963. Bruce Reynolds led a large group of men, including his friend Biggs, on the audacious hijacking of the Royal Mail train. Brent said she had had absolutely no idea that her husband was involved. "My family had turned their back on me for marrying him. I had two small children, one of whom was only five months old," she said. "So,...
They settled in Melbourne and had a third son. Biggs worked as a carpenter while his wife worked night shift in a biscuit factory. She told Australian Story they didn't have anything of the proceeds of the robbery. It had paid for his legal fees, his escape from prison, false passports, plastic surgery in Paris to change his appearance and their tr...
The story sparked worldwide media interest, and media tycoon Frank Packer helped to arrange her release three days later. "I was paid $65,000 for the story but the tax man took $40,000 of it," she said in 2001. "It's a case that's in all the law books now. So I was left with enough money to buy this house, which was $19,000 at the time." The rest, ...
Six months after Biggs' flight from Australia there was a drastic turn of events – their eldest son, eight-year-old Nicky, died in a car accident. Brent was the driver. Her friend, the late Joan Walter, said Brent received many hate letters from people saying they were pleased that she had been punished by having a son killed. Supportive friends su...
Finally free of Biggs, although she truly never was free of him until he died a year ago, Brent emerged from the burden of his notoriety to follow her own path to intellectual fulfillment. Then in 1974 Biggs was discovered in Rio de Janeiro and arrested and imprisoned. A Sydney newspaper flew Brent to visit him. She had not seen him for five years....
Years later, Brent developed cancer. Her father had died in Britain and she wanted to make peace with her mother. Biggs reached out and suggested she visit him on the way back from the UK, and for the first time since Biggs fled Melbourne they had time together completely alone. "And it felt like when we were first married," she said. "I wouldn't s...
Her greatest joy in recent times, she told Australian Story last year, was meeting friends one day a week "to read epic poems like the Odyssey and the Iliad". She also met another group every Tuesday to read Shakespeare and watch Shakespearean movies, and "once a fortnight I read Proust in French with another girl I did French with at uni". But Bre...
Mrs Biggs: With Sheridan Smith, Daniel Mays, Caroline Goodall, Adrian Scarborough. The true story of Charmian Brent (née Powell), the rebellious product of a strict 1950s upbringing, and her whirlwind romance with Ronald Biggs leading to a descent into crime, most infamously 1963's Great Train Robbery.
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- 2012-09-05
- Crime, Drama, History
- Sheridan Smith, Daniel Mays, Caroline Goodall
Mrs Biggs From Headmaster's daughter to the wife of a criminal, the story of Charmian Biggs' marriage to an infamous fugitive is a moving tale of dishonor, deception, and love. Year: 2012 · Season 1 · Credits: Sheridan Smith, Daniel Mays, Caroline Goodall...
Mrs. Biggs. Season 1. From Headmaster's daughter to the wife of a criminal, the story of Charmian Biggs' marriage to an infamous fugitive is a moving tale of dishonor ...
Mrs Biggs is a TV mini series about the life of Charmian Biggs, the wife of Ronnie Biggs, one of the Great Train Robbery gang members. The episode list shows the titles, dates, ratings and summaries of the five episodes of the series.
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Aug 18, 2012 · Sheridan Smith steps into the role of Charmian, the wife of the infamous great train robber, Ronnie Biggs.Drama Lives on ITVhttp://www.itv.com/mrsbiggs
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