44. The Gunpowder Plot: Conspirators Caught Red-Handed (Ep 3)
Journey Through Time
Goalhanger
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:47.1 | Welcome to a Journey Through Time Special. I'm Sarah Churchill. And I'm David on the showgun. |
| 0:51.7 | And this is the third part in our four-part series on the |
| 0:55.0 | gunpowder treason of 1605, also known as the gunpowder plot. It's the most infamous act of treason |
| 1:01.8 | in British history, an attempt to strike a terrible blow against the state that would unquestionably |
| 1:07.6 | have changed the course of British history. So there's a reason why treason and traitors are particularly on your mind, David, as we tell this story. |
| 1:16.0 | And for those of us who are waiting to find out what happened, I have to say you've been very good about not giving anything away. |
| 1:20.9 | I don't have any idea either, but we will be finding out how good you are at catching traders tomorrow night. |
| 1:26.3 | We will. Yeah, finally. |
| 1:28.1 | The science has not been good so far, but we shall see what happens in the end. The thing I've |
| 1:32.3 | discovered, going back to read these books, some of the great books about the gunpowder plot, |
| 1:38.3 | is you can really sense that part of the appeal of traitors is not just us, you know, stumbling around trying to find the traitors. |
| 1:46.6 | I mean, that's appealing. Yeah. But the iconography of the secret meeting, of the cloaks, |
| 1:51.8 | you know, it's deep within British culture. And some of it comes from this moment. I mean, |
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