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Journey Through Time

43. The Gunpowder Plot: The Recruitment of Guy Fawkes (Ep 2)

Journey Through Time

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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How did a series of plots to depose and kill King James I ultimately fail? Who was Robert Catesby, the mastermind behind the Gunpowder Plot? Why was Guy Fawkes recruited into the secret group meeting at a pub in central London?  Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell looking at how Guy Fawkes and the other conspirators started to hatch the Gunpowder Plot.   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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Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.

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Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

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statutes heretofore made in the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth against Jesuits, seminary priests,

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and other priests, deacons, religious, and ecclesiastical persons ordained by the Sea of Rome.

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the 6th of Scotland, First of England, in 1604.

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