Series | 2022 | BBC [uk] | Drama, Heist / Caper, True Crime | United Kingdom
Main data
| Director | Lawrence Gough, Aneil Karia |
|---|---|
| Written by | Neil Forsyth |
| Production | Tannadice Pictures [uk] |
Shooting data
| Start of shooting | 01/03/2022 |
|---|---|
| End of shooting | 01/08/2022 |
| Filming regions | United Kingdom - England |
Brief synopsis
Inspired by the iconic true story of the Brink’s-Mat robbery and the decades-long chain of events that followed.
On the 26 November 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. What started as 'a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery' according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft, at the time the biggest in world history, but for its wider legacy.
Inspired by extensive research and interviews with some of those involved in the events, 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.
Source: BBC UK
On the 26 November 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. What started as 'a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery' according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft, at the time the biggest in world history, but for its wider legacy.
Inspired by extensive research and interviews with some of those involved in the events, 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.
Source: BBC UK