The Beggar Bride

• 7.5 Drama
• 1997-08-24
• 147 minutes mins

How far will she go for money? "Don't you see, Billy, people like them owe people like us." Young, beautiful and living on the breadline with a feckless husband and a sickly child, Angela Harper decides to take matters into her own hands in order to save her family from the poverty trap. She hits on the perfect plan after noticing a newspaper feature on the once divorced and once widowed lord, Sir Fabian Ormoerod. She will marry the man and then hit him for a massive divorce settlement. And so the stunning Ms Angela Harper, successful lingerie buyer with an alluring independent streak is born...

Starring:

Keeley Hawes (Angela Harper) Nicholas Jones (Sir Fabian Ormerod) Joe Duttine (Billy Harper) Richard Lintern (Callister) John Bowler (Inspector Hayes) T.R. Bowen (Jerry) Georgina Sutcliffe (Laura)

Director:

Diarmuid Lawrence

Writer:

Lizzie Mickery