Writer Neil Forsyth Discusses His Creative Process on New Series ‘The Gold’

The Gold first premiered in the UK on the BBC this past winter. It received widespread acclaim and became one of the UK’s most prominent new dramas of the year so far. Now, The Gold is available to stream on Paramount+. Inspired by the real-life events on November 26th, 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport and made away with gold bullion worth £26m. According to detectives, what started as a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery became a seminal event in British criminal history that’s remarkable not only for the scale of the theft (at the time the biggest in world history) but for its broader legacy; The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering The heist provided the dirty money that helped...

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