Ronnie Biggs would admit that he's no saint. Sentenced to thirty years for his part in the Great Train Robbery - which took place on a cold English morning in August 1963 - he's the legendary gangster who escaped to taunt the British establishment, sing with the Sex Pistols, and tan with bikini-clad Brazilian beach girls, Pina Colada in hand. He's a hard man, the rogue who got away.
But for his son, 28-year-old Michael, Ronnie Biggs is the father who "fed me, clothed me, loved me". Michael knew straight who, when prohibited from working legally, traded on the only skill he could short of organised crime - being himself.
Crime, music, sex in the sun, drugs by the pool, innocence, experience, kidnapping (twice) and love - this is a tough, touching and extraordinary tale of two lives that could never be called average.
