Inspired by in depth analysis and interviews with a few of these concerned within the occasions, The Gold is a pulsating dramatization which takes a journey right into a Nineteen Eighties world awash with low cost cash and loosened morals.
On the twenty sixth November 1983, six armed males broke into the Brink’s-Mat safety depot close to London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled throughout gold bullion price £26m. What began as ‘a typical Old Kent Road armed theft’ based on detectives on the time, turned a seminal occasion in British felony historical past, outstanding not just for the dimensions of the theft – on the time the largest in international historical past – however for its wider legacy.
The disposal of the bullion precipitated the start of large-scale worldwide cash laundering, offered the soiled cash that helped gas the London Docklands property increase, united blue and white collar criminals and left controversy and homicide in its wake.
Inspired by in depth analysis and interviews with a few of these concerned within the occasions, The Gold is a pulsating dramatization which takes a journey right into a Nineteen Eighties world awash with low cost cash and loosened morals to inform this extraordinary and epic story for the primary time in its entirety.
The Gold stars Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington 1 and a couple of) alongside Jack Lowden (Small Axe: Mangrove, Slow Horses), Dominic Cooper (The Preacher, The Devil’s Double), Charlotte Spencer (The Duke, Cinderella), Tom Cullen (Becoming Elizabeth, Black Mirror), Emun Elliott (Guilt, Old), Sean Harris (Southcliffe, Mission: Impossible), Ellora Torchia (Ali and Ava, Midsommar) and Stefanie Martini (Prime Suspect, The Last Kingdom). The Gold is written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt, Eric, Ernie & Me) and directed by Academy Award-winning Aneil Karia (The Long Goodbye) together with Lawrence Gough (The Last Bus, Snatch, Misfits).
Announced right this moment, Daniel Ings (I Hate Suzi, Lovesick) joins the solid alongside James Nelson-Joyce (Time, The Outlaws), Sophia La Porta (Four Weddings And A Funeral, Ripper Street), Dorothy Atkinson (Call The Midwife, Stonehouse), Adam Nagaitis (Red Rose, Chernobyl), Hadley Fraser (Gentleman Jack, Endeavour), Silas Carson (Dr Who, Strike), Sean Gilder (Sherwood, His Dark Materials), Nichola Burley (Behind Her Eyes, Lynn + Lucy), Amanda Drew (A Very British Scandal, Wednesday), Sam Spruell (Small Axe: Mangrove, the North Water), Frankie Wilson (Call The Midwife, House of the Dragon), Paul Thornley (Treadstone, Silent Witness), Dan Li (Vigil, The Girl Before), Chris Coghill (Slow Horses, The Bay), Micah Balfour (The Trial of Christine Keeler, Whitehouse Farm), Ruth Bradley (Ted Lasso, Guilt), and Peter Davison (All Creatures Great and Small, Doctor Who).
The Gold is coming quickly to BBC One and iPlayer.