42. The Gunpowder Plot: Britain’s Most Famous Traitors (Ep 1)

Journey Through Time

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History

4.3 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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As Queen Elizabeth I lay dying, why were the nation’s high profile Catholics rounded up and imprisoned? Why has history overlooked James I, the first king of Scotland and England? Who were the small group of wealthy Catholic men so angry with the new king that they ultimately planned to blow up Parliament? Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga on their first of four episodes looking at the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Social Producer: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden Producer: Alice Horrell Head of History: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:33.5	Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Everard Digby, Ambrose Rookwood, John Grant, Robert Winter, Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright,
1:39.1	Christopher Wright, slain in rebellion, Francis Tresham, lately dead.
1:47.1	All Romanists and corrupted scholars of so irreligious and traitorous a school conspired,
1:54.7	first to deprive the king of his crown, secondly, to murder the king, the queen, and the prince.
1:59.1	Thirdly, to stir rebellion and sedition in the kingdom.
2:02.9	Fourthly, to bring a miserable destruction amongst the subjects. Fifthly, to change, alter, and subvert the religion here established. Sixthly,
2:11.6	to ruinate the state of the Commonwealth and to bring in strangers to invade it. Welcome to a journey through time special.
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