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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Bunker Gold: The cult of Guy Fawkes
Description: On this Bonfire night special Bunker Gold, let us take you back to November 2020…Was Guy Fawkes really “the last honest man to enter Parliament”, as we keep hearing on Twitter? Or a fore-runner of today’s religiously radicalised terrorists? Why is a villain of the Gunpowder Plot acclaimed as a hero by some in 2020? Nick Holland, author of The Real Guy Fawkes, tells Jude Rogers why Guy Fawkes persists as a symbol… and what we misunderstand about a man who almost murdered thousands in a 17th century atrocity.
“Guy Fawkes is a complicated figure – so both political...