The Gold (BBC One) | iPlayer
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I didn’t expect much from new BBC One drama The Gold, written and created by Neil Forsyth and plonked in the old Happy Valley slot on Sunday night. Based on the real-life £26m Brink’s-Mat bullion robbery from a warehouse near Heathrow in 1983, the title makes it sound like a naff chart hits compilation album from the same era. But watching it (all six episodes are on iPlayer), my reservations melted – or should I say smelted? – away. It’s less about stolen gold – bars gleaming in hands like lightsabers – than human nature: how far people are prepared to go and how hard others work to stop them.
