BBC One has released the official trailer for its six-episode crime drama “The Gold”, which was inspired by the real-life Brink’s-Mat robbery – Britain’s biggest gold heist to date.
In November 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26 million. Soon the police are scrambling to quickly recover the stolen gold before it completely becomes untraceable.
The theft became a seminal event in British criminal history and the biggest theft in world history at the time, but things didn’t stop there.
The bullion had a larger impact on the UK – birthing large-scale international money laundering, fueling the London Docklands property boom, and uniting blue and white-collar criminals. This aims to tell the full scope of the story.
Hugh Bonneville (“Paddington”), Jack Lowden (“Slow Horses”), Dominic Cooper (“Mamma Mia”), Charlotte Spencer (“Sanditon”), Tom Cullen (“Weekend”), Sean Harris (“Mission: Impossible – Fallout”) along with Emun Elliott, Ellora Torchia, Stefanie Martini, Daniel Ings, James Nelson-Joyce, Sophia La Porta, Dorothy Atkinson, Adam Nagaitis, Hadley Fraser, Silas Carson, Sean Gilder and former “Doctor Who” star Peter Davison.
The series hails from Oscar-winning filmmaker Aneil Karia and Lawrence Gough direct from a screenplay written by Neil Forsyth.
It currently has no exact air date but is expected to debut sometime this year on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, followed by its U.S. debut on the Paramount+ service
