Its subject is the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, when a gang of thieves broke into a depot near Heathrow expecting to steal £1m in foreign currency, but found £26m in gold bullion instead.
BBC One's six-part crime drama "bubbles away with the vigour of a red-hot crucible", said Nick Hilton in The Independent. Its subject is the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, when a gang of thieves broke into a depot near Heathrow expecting to steal £1m in foreign currency, but found £26m in gold bullion instead.