From the Editors
THE ACTORS ON this week’s cover, Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer and Dominic Cooper, are the stars of a gripping new drama that begins on BBC1 this week, based on the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery. It was Britain’s biggest bullion heist. The action is more concerned with the pursuit of the criminals than the actual crime, and Bonneville’s depiction of the detective who brought the criminals to book is a reminder of a time when trustworthy policemen were all you’d expect to see depicted on screen. But, as Bonneville tells us in his interview on page 18, our expectations of the archetypes of good and bad are not always based on reality – and that stolen gold resurfaced in some unlikely places. If any of that makes you think this sounds like a throwback…