Bullion for you: Hugh Bonneville and Neil Forsyth on The Gold series two
There is an oft-quoted assertion about the gold from the Brink’s-Mat robbery of 1983, in which six men in a van set out to steal £1m in cash from a Heathrow warehouse and instead made off with bullion worth £26m: if you have bought gold jewellery in Britain since 1984, it is likely to contain traces of the Brink’s-Mat haul.
In other words, there was a lot of it. Which is good news for fans of The Gold, Neil Forsyth’s hit BBC drama about the robbers, as well as the dogged police team who pursued them, because it means there’s plenty of rich material for series two.