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BBC releases first-look images and further casting details for series two of The Gold

Hugh Bonneville, a white man in his sixties, stands in an office on a phone with a cord, looking concerned

After finally managing to get convictions, the police realise that the criminals they’ve put behind bars only ever had half the stolen gold. Series two will ask the question on the lips of every cop (and audience member): who has the other half?

The answer will drag the police into a world of manhunts and money laundering. The organised criminals now in possession of the eponymous precious metal aren’t going to give it up without a fight.

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Seventy years ago, on 2 June 1953, the coronation of a new queen at Westminster Abbey ushered in Britain’s age of television. The BBC’s meticulously organised coverage of the young Elizabeth II’s coronation was widely praised, despite the uneven picture quality, as an estimated 20 million tuned in, more than half the adult population.