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The Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes' Radicalization

Season 2 Episode 3 | 3m 22s

What pushed Guy Fawkes over the edge? What turned him from a radical who wanted change to an extremist willing to kill? Foreign correspondent Jason Burke has the answers.

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