“Best bank in the world is your tummy,” Joan Hannington wrote in her 2004 memoir, I Am What I Am. Known as “The Godmother,” Hannington was for 20 years one of London’s most infamous jewel thieves. Born in 1957, a child of abusive parents, she fled home at the age of 13. By 17, she had married Ray Pavey, a convicted felon with whom she had a daughter, Debbie. When Pavey proved to be as violent as Hannington’s father had been, she left him, taking their six-year-old and reluctantly handing her to social services while she tried to rebuild her life. But this was harder than she imagined, so Hannington turned to crime, doing everything she could to get her daughter back—which included swallowing diamonds. Joan, a new mini-series created with the help of Hannington herself, stars Sophie Turner in the title role. —Jeanne Malle