Gunpowder, Treason & Plot

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Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
Directed by Gillies MacKinnon
Written by Jimmy McGovern
Starring Clémence Poésy
Kevin McKidd
Robert Carlyle
Tim McInnerny
Emilia Fox
Music by John E. Keane
Cinematography Nigel Willoughby
Editing by Pia Di Ciaula
Distributed by BBC
Release date(s) 14 March 2004
Running time 205 min (2 parts)
Country Flag of the United Kingdom UK
Language English
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Gunpowder, Treason & Plot was a 2004 BBC miniseries loosely based upon the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots and her son James I of England. The writer Jimmy McGovern tells the story behind the Gunpowder Plot in two parts, each centred on one of the monarchs.

Directed by Gillies MacKinnon and filmed in Romania with a key Scottish crew, the first film dramatizes the relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots, played by French actress Clémence Poésy, and her third husband, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell played by Kevin McKidd. Scottish actor Robert Carlyle stars as James I in the second part of the series, which concentrates on the Gunpowder Plot, planned by Guy Fawkes, to blow up the Houses of Parliament in order to rid the nation of a Protestant monarch to be replaced by a Catholic one. McGovern had previously covered the Plot in the one-hour play Traitors for BBC2's Screenplay strand, transmitted on November 5, 1990.

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Principal Cast & Characters
Clémence Poésy Mary I of Scotland
Iona Ruxandra Bratosin Young Mary
Kevin McKidd Bothwell
Robert Carlyle James I
Gary Lewis John Knox
Carmen Ungureanu Mary of Guise
Tadeusz Pasternak David Rizzio
Catherine McCormack Elizabeth I of England
Tim McInnerny Cecil
Emilia Fox Lady Margaret

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