Hi, Namulanta combo here and I'm excited to tell you that my award-winning podcast,

Dear Daughter, is back for his second season and it's available now.

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

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Gold like that, you can't control it.

And if you can't handle it, then it will find its way to someone who can.

This week we're going back to London in 1983.

On November 9th, six men in a van pull up outside a non-descript looking warehouse near Hiko Airport.

The building is a depot belonging to a security company named Brink's Mat.

Inside they discover diamonds, cash and a huge dash of gold,

3,000 kilograms of gold or roughly the weight of a minibus.

Most of the gold has never been recovered.

Such is the quantity of the Brink's Mat Gold and the mystery around its whereabouts that it has been

claimed. If you've bought gold jewelry in Britain since 1984, it's likely to contain traces of

Brink's Mat Gold. This claim has been around for a while. For example, it was included in a BBC

article about the robbery in the year 2000. But it's been brought to our attention because the

Brink's Mat robbery is the subject of a new BBC drama called The Gold. And that claim pops

up on the screen right at the beginning. We know one more or less that all numerical claims that

glitter aren't gold and to get to the bottom of this one, I wanted to hear from someone who knows

a lot about gold and other shiny things. Hi, I'm Zoe. I'm the general manager of a company called

Hatten Garden Metals. Hatten Garden, where Zoe's family business is based, is a street in London,

which is known for its jewelers and gold traders. Essentially we're just a very large recycling plant

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