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Heist

Drama: Historical

23/04/2008

BBC Four - Heist

Dick Puddlecote and his gang break into the vault at Westminster Abbey to steal the gold.

Drama based on the true story of a medieval heist. Dick Puddlecote decides to exact revenge by breaking into the vault at Westminster Abbey and stealing all the King's gold.

Drama based on the true story of an outrageous medieval heist, told in the style of Ocean's 11.

When Dick Puddlecote is released from a Flanders jail in 1302 to discover his friends, his livelihood and his woman are all in hock to the king, he decides to exact a very modern form of revenge - break into the vault at Westminster Abbey and steal the king's gold. There’s just one catch - failure would earn him and his gang ruthless torture, swift punishment and potentially an eternity in hell.

A true story sourced from original trial records, this bold comedy-drama combines the energy of a British heist comedy with the veracity of factual dramas and the bawdiness of Chaucer, breathing life into a strange and foreign world full of priests and prostitutes.

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