Synopsis
This Bonfire Night, watch as Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators embark on a devilish plot to blow up Parliament.
- Programme: Horrible Histories
- Series: 2
- Episode: 1
- Channel: CBBC
- Broadcast year: 2010
- History
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