TV tonight: Charles Sobhraj's colourful life of crime
Ammar Kalia, Hannah Verdier, Phil Harrison , Graeme Virtue and Paul Howlett
The Serpent
9pm, BBC One
A Prophet’s Tahar Rahim stars in this thriller telling the true story of conman Charles Sobhraj (Rahim) and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc’s (Jenna Coleman) crime spree throughout the “hippy trail” of Thailand, Nepal and India in 1975 and 1976. In this opening episode, we are thrown into a world of 70s silk suits and feathered hair as Sobhraj and Leclerc pose as jet-setting gem dealers, while Dutch junior diplomat Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle) stumbles upon their crimes.