Photo: Unattributed engraving of Guy Fawkes and fellow conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, 1605 (Mary Evans Picture Library) At midnight, searchers discover Guy Fawkes in the bowels of the ...

In 1605, a group of Catholic conspirators plotted ... They hid kegs full of gunpowder in the cellars beneath the chamber where the king and the rest of the political elite would assemble.

She said working on the programme, The Gunpowder Plot, allowed her to see the events "through 21st Century eyes". The events of 1605 had taken place in a time of "religion, extremism and violence ...