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Gunpowder: Created by Ronan Bennett, Kit Harington, Daniel West. With Kit Harington, Liv Tyler, Edward Holcroft, Mark Gatiss. Robert Catesby leads Guy Fawkes a group of English Catholic traitors plan to blow up the Palace Of Westminster and kill King James I in the infamous Gunpowder Plot.
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- 2017-12-18
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Gunpowder is a British historical drama television miniseries produced by Kudos and Kit Harington's Thriker Films for BBC One. The three-part drama series premiered on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 21 October 2017 and on HBO in the United States on 18 December 2017.
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- Did Robert Catesby Actually Come Up with The Gunpowder Plot?
- Did Catholics Really Get Punished in Such Brutal ways?
- Did The Priest John Gerard Escape The Tower of London After His Capture?
- Was King James I Openly Gay in Real Life?
- Did Robert Catesby Have A Troubled Relationship with His Son?
- Did A Warning Letter Foil The Gunpowder Plot?
Guy Fawkes, played by Tom Cullen, is the man most closely associated with the Gunpowder Plot — and effigies of the notorious conspirator are still burned by Brits annually on Nov. 5. However, although Fawkes’ name is more commonly associated with the story of the Gunpowder Plot than Robert Catesby’s, it was in fact Catesby, played by Harington, who...
The graphic first episode of Gunpowder shows a woman named Lady Dorothy Dibdale (Sian Webber) being brutally crushed by heavy stones in a public square, for “refus[ing] to enter a plea” that she harbored “a jesuit priest in [her] house.” In the same scene, a young Catholic priest is gruesomely hanged and quartered. In reality, such punishments did ...
In episode two, Catesby and his companions are seen helping the priest John Gerard (Robert Emms) escape from the Tower of London in the dead of night. Gerard had been captured by Jesuit hunter William Wade (Shaun Dooley) and questioned over Catesby’s whereabouts — but he refused to disclose any information, resulting in his torture by waterboarding...
In the first episode of Gunpowder, the Scottish King (Derek Riddell) is seen flirting with Sir Philip Herbert (Hugh Alexander) in front of his rather camp court. This portrayal of King James is close to reality, as historians and biographers have long found evidence that the monarch was either gay or openly bisexual. An intimate relationship betwee...
In Gunpowder, Catesby is portrayed as having strained relations with his son, Robert, who he blames for the death of his wife, Catherine, in childbirth. “I am humiliated, despised and impoverished. I have nothing left except the kindness of a loving cousin,” Catesby confesses to Anne Vaux (Liv Tyler), his cousin, in the first episode. To this, Vaux...
In the third episode of Gunpowder, Lord Monteagle (played by Sean Rigby) — who had ties to some of the conspirators and had engaged in previous Catholic-led plots against the government — receives a strange letter which is difficult to decipher. He immediately takes it to Parliament, where it eventually reaches the King. “God and men have concurred...
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Overview. London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King. Ronan Bennett.
Robert Catesby, a young Catholic nobleman who has recently lost both his wife and his father and, angry at his perception of punishment from society, conjures a literally explosive plot to kill...
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Following the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, King James VI of Scotland succeeds to the English throne. Catholic Robert Catesby devises a treasonous plot to assassinate James, but he needs allies. 7.4/10 (803) Rate. Watch options.
