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BBC’s The Gold Concludes Brink’s-Mat Heist Story in Final Season

The final series digs into the search for the missing Brink’s-Mat gold, spotlighting the international money laundering web that followed the 1983 heist.

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Emun Elliott as Tony Brightwell and Charlotte Spencer as Nicki Jennings in The Gold
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Overview

  • The second and final series premiered on BBC One and iPlayer on June 8, completing the two-part retelling of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat gold robbery.
  • Creator Neil Forsyth blends extensive research with fictional composites to dramatise theories about the unrecovered half of the £26 million bullion.
  • Hugh Bonneville returns as DCI Brian Boyce leading the Brink’s-Mat Task Force in what stands as the Metropolitan Police’s most expansive and costly investigation.
  • Key figures from season one—including Charlotte Spencer, Jack Lowden and Tom Cullen—are joined by newcomers portraying financiers and operatives in global laundering schemes.
  • Narrative threads follow the stolen gold from London smelting operations into organised crime networks across Spain, the Caribbean and beyond.