With its star-studded cast and heist-themed plot, BBC show The Gold has already been garnering a fair amount of interest ahead of its launch on February 12.
The events in the show were actually based on an infamous real-life crime dubbed the Brink’s-Mat robbery. In it, a staggering £26m in gold and uncut diamonds was stolen from a London bank, but despite the high-profile nature of the theft, only three people were ever jailed for it, and most of the money was never recovered.
