Wicks was born Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, to Brian and Judith Wicks. Wicks's mother, Judith Bates, born 1933, was the second child of the Writer H.E. Bates. Wicks is the niece of Jonathan Bates, the award-winning Sound Editor who died in 2008, and the television Producer, Richard Bates, who produced the television adaptation of The Darling Buds of May. Wicks is a Director of Evensford Productions Ltd, the company set up in 1955 to protect and promote H.E. Bates's work.