If you’re looking for a new BBC drama to get stuck into, then you’re in luck: the Beeb is dipping its toes into the world of true crime (or true crime-adjacent stories, anyway) with its new six-part series, The Gold.

Here’s what you need to know.

What’s The Gold about?

Inspired by the iconic true story of the Brink’s-Mat robbery, The Gold details how a “typical Old Kent Road armed robbery” led to a whopping £26 million of gold bullion being swiped from a London depot.

It was a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft, at the time the biggest in world history, but for its wider legacy. Because, as per the BBC’s official synopsis, the “disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, united blue and white collar criminals, and left controversy and murder in its wake.”

Watch the trailer for The Gold below:

The Gold – aka the BBC’s new drama – is inspired by a real-life heist, and we’re into it