Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot 10 years old

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 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up King and Parliament. Wintour's 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 shoot-out on 8 November. The hopes, fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion, royal kidnap, the plotters' penetration of the king's 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 5/11 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors.

Credits

Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot Cast

Name	Character
Jamie Thomas King He was 33, now 43 years old	as Thomas Wintour
Richard Lintern He was 52, now 62 years old	as Himself - Narrator
Jamie Maclachlan He was 33, now 43 years old	as Guy Fawkes

Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot Crew

Name	Department
Jody Jenkins as Music.	Sound