The Gold: The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist

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Hillel Italie (June 30, 2014). "Tartt, Goodwin awarded Carnegie medals". Seattle Times. Associated Press . Retrieved July 1, 2014. In the Sunday Times, Camilla Long said The Gold was “astonishingly, lavishly, well realised”, [12] while Esquire said that The Gold was “British TV at its best” and had “all the hallmarks of a crime classic”. [13] BBC Head of History, Simon Young says: "Few robberies are as iconic as Brink’s-Mat or have had such a profound effect on the country. That’s why it’s so fascinating to hear Brian Boyce and his colleagues give such a frank and unvarnished account of the challenges the police faced in attempting to solve such a colossal crime."

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The Gold is the conclusion of extensive research and includes exclusive testimony from one of the original robbers who gives his version of events for the first time. The result is the astonishing true story of the robbery of the century.so-- overall --not great -- but I'm glad I saw it. SLOW.....expect 'very' slow in the beginning -- We get use to the slow pace after about an hour into it....haha! In the series, Palmer runs the Bristol-based Scadlynn with Garth Chappell, buying up scrap gold and smelting it with Brink’s-mat gold (Palmer in the series also uses coins to smelt, which is accurate – coins used for smelting were found on both Noye and Palmer’s properties). Though cleared of murdering Det. John Fordham in 1985 – whom he stabbed during a surveillance operation – Noye was eventually sentenced to 14 years for conspiracy to handle the gold and VAT evasion. He was released in 1994.

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The most laboured point in The Gold is Boyce’s battle against a Freemason-controlled establishment – the men at the top who profit from crime but never get their hands dirty like the salt-of-the-earth gangsters. On a second series of The Gold, Forsyth said there was “more story to tell” in the Brink’s-Mat robbery but would have to wait and see if a renewal from the BBC was on the cards.Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014 . Retrieved January 14, 2014.