Women and the Gunpowder Plot

A great deal is known about the thirteen men who conspired to blow up Parliament and the King 400 years ago. But what of the women who were involved either by accident or design? Gunpowder Women, the Woman's Hour drama from Monday, 31 October to Friday 4 November, looks at the women affected by the plot through a series of short plays. Martha Kearney is joined by Kate Shaw, who wrote one of the episodes, and Alice Hogge, whose book about the story of the hatching of the plot, God's Secret Agents, is published this week by HarperCollins.