Gunpowder, Treason and Plot Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 2: EPISODE: 2

  The concluding part of Jimmy McGovern's historical drama, starring Robert Carlyle as Mary's son James VI of Scotland who becomes James I of England after Elizabeth's death. As religious tensions rise, influential Catholic conspirator Robert Catesby hatches a plot to destroy Parliament and strike a blow for his faith. With Richard Coyle and Michael Fassbender

• Season 1 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1

  Part one of two. Cracker creator Jimmy McGovern's two-part historical drama charting the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her son James VI of Scotland. The first instalment chronicles Mary's short-lived reign, her conflict with Protestant cousin Elizabeth I and her plot with the Earl of Bothwell to assassinate her miscreant husband, Lord Darnley. Starring Clemence Poesy and Catherine McCormack