Brink’s-Mat Robbery Drama for BBC One

The BBC has commissioned The Gold, a new drama inspired by the true story of the Brink’s-Mat robbery in November 1983.

The Gold is a co-production between Tannadice Pictures, an Objective Fiction partner, and ViacomCBS International Studios for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The 6×1-hour series is based on extensive research and interviews with those involved in the events.

Neil Forsyth (Guilt; Eric, Ernie and Me) is behind the series as writer.

On November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26 million. The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, united blue- and white-collar criminals and left controversy and murder in its wake.

Forsyth, said, “We’re delighted to be working with the BBC on our first Tannadice Pictures production. The story of the Brink’s-Mat gold is a thrilling, surprising and tragic story, and I am excited to be able to tell it.”

Piers Wenger, director of BBC drama, said, “This is so much more than the story of an armed robbery. The Gold looks beyond the auspices of the theft itself to explore how the case united the criminal underworld with corporate finance, caused personal tragedy and spawned one of the most shocking, influential and mysterious cases in British criminal history.”