The New BBC Series That Retells The Crime Of The Century

While there is no current release date, the miniseries will be six episodes long. The Gold will tell the story of how one of the most audacious heists in British history was planned and executed, as well as the events that followed, which may be more important than the robbery itself. The late November break-in saw a gang of six robbers enter the Brinks-Mat warehouse, and steal £26 million worth of cash, gold and diamonds- equivalent to over £112 million today.

The robbers had only planned to steal around £3.2 million cash but found more than they could believe. The break-in was, at the time, the biggest robbery in history, and has never been fully solved, with much of the gold remaining lost. The series shows how the break-in happened and how it helped spark large-scale money laundering.

Hugh Bonneville and Charlotte Spencer’s (The Duke) characters appear to be the investigators trying to track down both the robbers and the gold: “we’re looking for six robbers, and three tons of gold” summarises Bonneville’s detective in the official series trailer, which you can watch below.

Jack Lowden (Slow Horses) meanwhile is playing one of the robbers involved with the heist, and Dominic Cooper seems to be playing a character helping the gang to launder the stolen money. The rest of the cast, meanwhile, includes Emun Elliott (Old), Stefanie Martini (Prime Suspect), Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible), Ellora Torchia (Midsommar) and Tom Cullen (Black Mirror).

The Gold is being written by Neil Forsyth, who wrote Guilt and Eric, Ernie and Me, and directed by Academy Award winner Aneil Karia (The Long Goodbye). The BBC’s synopsis for The Gold is a pulsating dramatization which takes a journey into a 1980s world awash with cheap money and loosened morals to tell this extraordinary and epic story for the first time in its entirety.”