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History Cafe

History Cafe

De: Jon Rosebank Penelope Middelboe
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True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...

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  • #29 The King's Fear - Ep 6 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    #29 The King's Fear - Ep 6 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
    Jul 29 2025
    As his father had done, Cecil built his entrapments around a germ of genuine plotting. We uncover a small Catholic rebellion in Warwickshire in response to the king’s tougher anti-Catholic laws. And we examine Cecil’s imaginative embellishment: a mystery letter delivered to a compromised Catholic peer on 26 October warning of ‘a terrible blow this Parliament.’ It was handed to the king to decipher. If anything was designed to terrify James I, whose father had narrowly escaped death from a gunpowder blast, this was it. (R)

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    32 m
  • #28 'A formidable network of secret agents' - Ep 5 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    #28 'A formidable network of secret agents' - Ep 5 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
    Jul 23 2025
    We dig deeper into the animosity between the king and Cecil whom he bullied and called names. And we see the Gunpowder plot in the context of the previous plots hatched by the Cecils against their enemies. All of which historians now agree were largely fabrications. Father and son had spies everywhere and openly boasted of their policy of entrapment. (R)

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    32 m
  • #27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    #27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
    Jul 16 2025
    To avoid any possible blame for the plot falling on himself or the king, Cecil procures confessions saying the seven gentlemen plotters began excavating a tunnel under the House of Lords long before the government stepped up its anti-Catholic legislation. They apparently lived on site, in an upstairs room, seven to a bed. They dug unnoticed, only in the day (or was it only in the night?) for almost a year, before spying a handy cellar next door for the gunpowder barrels. Yes. Of course. (R)

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    34 m
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