Gunpowder 511 The Greatest Terror Plot

For the first time the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up King and Parliament Wintours insider account of this epic tale of faith fanaticism persecution and betrayal is told in detail from his recruitment of both Fawkes and his own brother to his capture in a dramatic siege and bloody shootout on 8 November The hopes fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion royal kidnap the plotters penetration of the kings bodyguard and Fawkes attendance sword in hand at a wedding attended by the king in December 1604 are shown as well as a dramatisation of the thrilling forgotten story of the final days after 511 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors