The Year Without Summer

27th May 2005 50 mins Season 24 Episode 7

Mount Tambora in eastern Indonesia unleashed the biggest volcanic blast ever in April 1815, a cataclysmic event that could have provoked a change in climate around the world. Thousands starved to death, lurid skies inspired the artist Turner and, out of the freakish cold, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was born. On opposite sides of the globe, two experts investigate.

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Season 24 · Episode 8

The Gunpowder Plot

In 1605 a group of angry young Catholic men decided to wipe out the monarchy and government by blowing up the Houses of Parliament. To mark the 400th anniversary of the infamous Gunpowder Plot, Timewatch attempts to establish why the conspirators had became so radicalised under the reign of King James I and assesses just how close the plotters came to achieving their aims. 1/4.

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