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The Gunpowder Plot: The Mural on the Tube

Season 2 Episode 3 | 3m 01s

On the 5th November 1605, a terrorist cell of desperate men tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but what drove these men to the extreme and why is their mural on the London tube?

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