Drama of the week
The Gold
Available on BBC iPlayer
With the possible exception of the Great Train Robbery of 1963, no heist has captured the British public’s imagination more than the theft of £26m in gold bars (more than £163m at today’s gold prices) from the Brink’s-Mat warehouse in 1983. It has featured in countless documentaries, films and television series, most recently in Channel Four’s last year. This hasn’t deterred the, a six-episode, lightly fictionalised mini-series written and created by Neil Forsyth and directed by Aneil Karia and Lawrence Gough.