The hunt for the missing Brink’s-Mat gold heats up again this Sunday as The Gold returns for a second season on BBC One at 9 PM GMT. Picking up where the first season left off, the premiere finds the police still chasing down the remaining half of the stolen bullion—a criminal investigation that has rippled far beyond the initial heist.
Meanwhile, in sun-drenched Tenerife, John Palmer’s timeshare empire begins to attract the kind of attention he’d rather avoid. The episode pulls back the curtain on how a seemingly straightforward robbery—six armed men, the Brink’s-Mat security depot, a cold November morning in 1983—ballooned into what the show calls a “seminal event in British criminal history.”
The first season of The Gold tackled the scale of the theft—the biggest in world history at the time—and laid the groundwork for understanding its wider fallout. Season 2 looks set to explore the fallout’s more long-tail consequences, tracing how the stolen gold seeped into the fabric of British life—from the streets of London to the beaches of the Canary Islands.
The Gold airs Sunday on BBC One at 9:00 PM GMT.
