Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot - podcast

On the evening of 4 November 1605 Guy Fawkes was found ready to blow Monarch and Parliament to Kingdom Come. But what reliable evidence is there, once we exclude the confessions extracted under torture? Was he a victim of the common practice of framing political enemies?

BBC Historian Jon Rosebank and HBO, BBC and Channel 4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe (who happen to be Catholics) look at the story of the Gunpowder Plot in eight 30 minute weekly history podcasts.

They look at the story the government published as The King's Book, more than 500 witness statements and other contemporary sources and conclude, like the Victorian antiquarian Jardine who wrote up the trial from the State Papers, there is no reliable corroborating evidence for the gunpowder story we've been told.

Listen here: www.historycafe.org/episodes/blowing-up-the-gunpowder-plot