Not only was this month’s programme (Sunday 6 November, Thursday 10 November, 4pm, Radio 4) rather topical, at least in the sense that it coincided (almost) with Bonfire Night, though its subject matter is 400 years old, but we found ourselves talking to Antonia Fraser on the very day when her household had been turned upside down by the news that Harold Pinter had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The following is from James Naughtie's Bookclub email newsletter: Treason and betrayal are everywhere and the price of a mistake is death. James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Antonia Fraser about her book The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605,A revealing and gripping account of the plot to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605.
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