45. The Gunpowder Plot: Why Do We Remember The Fifth Of November? (Ep 4)
How did the remaining conspirators manage to blow themselves up? Why is the defeat of the Gunpowder Plot still celebrated 400 years later? What are the parallels between this plot and the 7/7 bombings?
Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell as they relive how the gunpowder plotters met their grisly end.
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Social Producer: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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44. The Gunpowder Plot: Conspirators Caught Red-Handed (Ep 3)
Once Parliament was blown up, how were the plotters planning on seizing power? How did the King manage to stop the plan to blow up parliament just in time? What is the Monteagle Letter and why is this one of English history’s greatest unsolved mysteries?
Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga telling the story of how Guy Fawkes was discovered minutes away from lighting the fuse to blow up Westminster.
Social Producer: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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43. The Gunpowder Plot: The Recruitment of Guy Fawkes (Ep 2)
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
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42. The Gunpowder Plot: Britain’s Most Famous Traitors (Ep 1)
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
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41. Salem Witch Trials: The Legacy (Ep 3)
How did the executions for witchcraft finally come to an end? What does a community do to reckon with the aftermath of all this violence? Why have the Salem Witch Trials become shorthand for the prosecution of outsiders and dissidents for centuries?
Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell for the final chapter in the story of The Salem Witch Trials.
Social Producer: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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Forgotten stories from history and how they shaped the way we live today.
Hear about the ordinary people from history and the extraordinary impact they’ve had on the present. Hosted by historians David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell, Journey Through Time will show how everyday actions have the most remarkable unintended consequences that ripple through time.
From the first woman to run for President to the unknown story of how the world came to the brink of nuclear war in 1983, this podcast is for everyone, not just history lovers.
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