The Gold, Trailer BBC

Subscribe and to the BBC Watch the BBC first on iPlayer The crime of the Century Inspired by the iconic true story of the BrinksMat robbery and the decadeslong chain of events that followed. On the 26November 1983, six armed men broke into the BrinksMat security depot near Londons 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