"Gunpowder" - BBC

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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05j1bc9

Anyone looking forward ?

Chill out. I'm able to dismiss a celebrity crush for whatever reason I please. And being short is a reason.

I trust KH won't be too heartbroken over this.

I also don't fancy them too skinny or too muscular. Oh, or ginger. Feel free to get huffy on behalf of the muscly gingers!

I’m not huffy. I find all the criticising men for traits over which they have no control rather eye rolly. It wouldn’t be tolerated here to dismiss a woman like that so yeah, I reserve the right to roll my eyes at it.

I. Can. Not. Wait

I suppose that as he's my friend's son I ought to watch....

So excited! I’ve been checking the airing date ever since the series was first announced.

I’m a lesbian and even I can’t wait to see Tom Cullen! Although admittedly I started getting into his acting through my massive crush on his girlfriend

I'm looking forward to it. It's amazing that Kit Harrington shares a surname with Robert Catesby and also lived in Warwickshire! (Kit has noble ancestry). I think the names Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes are the sexiest names on the planet.

He (Kit) lived in Worcestershire and his mother is a descendant of Robert Catesby. He also spent his early life in a not hugely glamorous/quite ordinary part of West London but the publicity people never give that bit out out

Sorry meant Worcestershire. Goodness his mother was a descendant of Catesby, how exciting!

I forgot about this. My weekend looks set to improve now. I might even get some wine in.

I’ve just been reading about Kit Harington. He’s also a direct descendant of Charles II.

Harsh! Watching through my fingers.

That scene was a bit graphic! Had to turn the sound off. Humans can be horrible to eachother

Gagh, that execution method was unexpected.

I feel sick, now.

I had to turn the sound off too!

HolyShmoly that was hung drawn and quartered I think. Can't remember the term for the first method.

It is very gruesome but Shaun Dooley is a fantastic actor isn’t he?

(Still sniggering at Jon Snow being of smurf height)

I thought hung, drawn and quartered was being hung by the neck, then each limb tied to a horse or winch or something until you were pulled apart. Not squishing in some sort of hand-crank iron maiden. And what was the shell in her back? Just added pain?

I'm no torture expert...

She was pressed. They did it to Margaret Clitheroe in York as well.

It looked like they were hanging, drawing and quartering him but I must have missed the hanging bit.

I missed how the woman was executed. How did it happen?

Yeah they hung him first. Then took out his bowels etc and removed him limbs. I think the horse wasn't always necessary. Brutal brutal time to live.
I don't get why they dipped the head in tar.

What was the object that was put underneath her body?

To preserve it for when it was put on a spike?

Ah it was the aunt's execution I was thinking of, that's why I didn't think it looked like hung, drawn and quartering.

Did they do that to the priest? I missed part of his death and just saw them dipping his head in tar.