BEFORE you light your bonfire and set off your fireworks on November 5, why not ‘spare a thought’ for Guy Fawkes, who we’re still sending up in flames, more than 400 years after the crime he’s SUPPOSED to have committed. Look for our playlist here with 7 episodes, called Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot. It's a grisly story with shady characters, state torture, spies including Shakespeare's rival Ben Jonson, and a network of men skilled at framing enemies particularly Catholics who sent Mary Queen of Scots to her death - this was called practicing or entrapment. Here is the soundtrack from a short YouTube promo. We recorded in one take in our study so we've left the hesitations in for you here. We wouldn't usually!

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