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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 1 of The Gold.

Writer and executive producer Neil Forsyth had his work cut out for him when adapting the larger-than-life true story of the Brink’s-Mat robbery. Too big for a single film adaptation, Neil decided this vast web of characters, plot, and conspiracy would be best told as a drama series. In this conversation, Neil talks about Episode 1 of The Gold and the decisions he made weaving together countless hours of research with compelling character arcs and dialogue to create this pulse pounding drama.

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0:18.9	Raymond James and the Masterpiece Trust.
0:26.3	I'm Jace Lay Cobb, and you're listening to Masterpiece Studio.
0:30.7	For what becomes one of the largest heists in British history, this story starts out
0:35.4	with far more modest aims. The six armed men who broke into the
0:39.6	Brinksmat warehouse on that late November morning in 1983 did have intentions of robbery, but only for
0:46.1	a mere one million pounds worth of foreign currency. However, the robbers were never actually able to
0:51.4	make it into the vault, as one of the security guards, paralyzed by the sheer terror of multiple loaded weapons aimed at him,
0:58.0	couldn't recall the keypad code.
1:00.0	I can't remember.
1:02.0	Come on, Ralphie.
1:04.0	I can't remember.
1:06.0	We only use it for the drills.
1:08.0	I can't remember.
1:09.0	We know every note in there.
1:11.0	We know the currency, and we know you are trained to the layers.
1:13.8	I don't hear you? I'd carry the money to your bloody van.
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