I’m watching Richard Hammond talk about the gunpowder plot at 1:30 am. What even is my life?

@PibrochPonder

4 жыл бұрын

Genticles 1:55 am here ;)

@juttuikaverit

4 жыл бұрын

3am, all hope is lost.

@BadBoyV1

4 жыл бұрын

3:46 am here lol

@trynoepic7313

4 жыл бұрын

This is life

@alistairgosling5266

4 жыл бұрын

2.45am hoping this will help sleep!

And suddendly Jeremy Clarkson emerges from the explosion saying the words: "Hammond, you IDIOT"

@boo-boo5764

3 жыл бұрын

Alejandro Quiroga Mansilla idot

@gavinpritchard9471

3 жыл бұрын

Or "and with that, it's back to the studio"

@spideywhiplash

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@marcleslac2413

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@Stussmeister

3 жыл бұрын

Or James May saying, "Bigger than I was expecting."

"Slow down, it's bad form to crash into explosives factories!", Words to live by!!!

Great documentary. I always watch this shortly before bonfire night.

im watching this for my history assessment, thanks dad for bringing me along on the top gear train cuz this is way more enjoyable now

@AngryBoob

3 жыл бұрын

become an engineer dude ! (sorry for my english ^^, i'm french)

@DJBEANZzROADTO1K

3 жыл бұрын

angry bob ton anglais est très formidable

@getthefekir5040

3 жыл бұрын

Have you finished the assignement? Hope you pass!

@meowmiaous

3 жыл бұрын

Brad Wilton I passed with flying colours thanks for asking :))

@getthefekir5040

3 жыл бұрын

@@meowmiaous niiiiice. Well done

It’s so weird seeing Hammond talk about something not involving cars.

@chilton7853

4 жыл бұрын

When I was younger I can remember seeing Hammond on loads of kids science programmes, but maybe I'm thinking of someone else

@KimM13744

4 жыл бұрын

He used to host a series called Brainiac, a science show which tested projects every episode, blowing stuff up, what happens if you mix different chemicals together and even can you walking on custard. We would watch it in school. 😁

@KayZeeFx

4 жыл бұрын

Never watched brainiac as a kid??? Or Total WIpeout? He wasn't called the king of day-time tv for nothing

@thom7853

3 жыл бұрын

I could watch him explain my daily schedule and enjoy it.

@Finallybianca

3 жыл бұрын

Hey at least something blows up and catches on fire so its not to far off his normal

This is an excellent production combining both factual history and the satisfaction of witnessing the power of explosives. Guy Fawkes was the only man ever to enter Parliament with honourable intentions.

@aryaaswale7316

Жыл бұрын

Terrorism is hardly honourable

@andrewharper1609

Жыл бұрын

Honest is how the saying goes.

@flashcracker1

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewharper1609 sorry but you are wrong. Honourable is correct and is the term used by MP's in the House of Commons when addressing a member of their own party. Also, see the quotation in Red Molotov's "Vote Guido" tee shirt on their website.

@richardlongmore9301

Жыл бұрын

@@aryaaswale7316 politicians deserve it

@bosola7168

Жыл бұрын

@@aryaaswale7316 One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.

When I was a child, nearly every home had a bonfire and fireworks display in their backyard. You could enjoy not only your own celebration of Guy Fawkes Night but that of others in the street as well. Very spectacular it all was too. We wondered whose fire would be the last to die out. That is no longer the case, these days, with Bonfire Night now being an organised event, as strangers gather together at big venues to share in the annual commemoration. All in the name of health and safety of course and rightly so. But I have fond memories of back in the day, when each family celebrated with their own personal Bonfire/Guy Fawkes do.

@craigpimlott204

4 ай бұрын

Yep building your bonfire with mates from where you lived .then going on manoeuvres to steal wood from other bonfires then getting in punch ups defending your own bonfire .I miss them days .no pain in the April whining about fireworks .even the animals were tougher back then I don’t know of any of my mates dogs or mine being bothered by fireworks ..

@howwwwwyyyyy

Ай бұрын

What happened hey, authoritarianism rules the west, and they get away with it "it's for your own safety"as the Nazis used to say

What I find fun about the British is that they celebrate this every year. I love their wry, dry sense of humour. That aside, this is one of the most interesting bits of historic/modern documentaries I've ever seen. Well done.

@pastytit

3 жыл бұрын

@Chris Perkins you think politicians are innocent?

@Jonathan-fz8di

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, always seemed strange to me that this is such a big thing in the year to 'celebrate'. Its more a case of enjoying the fireworks, bonfire, food and all the other things, while the original reason becomes more of a back story. I saw this a few years back, thought it was great. Would have preferred another presenter, but at least Hammond is enthusiastic about it.

@mystero9714

2 жыл бұрын

When we celebrate bonfire night we are celebrating that the gunpowder plot failed and that guy fawkes was executed, hence why we burn guy fawkes dolls on bonfires.

@logangallagher7050

2 жыл бұрын

@@mystero9714 originally it was an effigy of the pope we burnt because it was a Catholic plot, however it changed to guy Fawkes because burning an effigy of the pope was outlawed by future Catholic monarchs

@logangallagher7050

2 жыл бұрын

King James the second

It took the building apart at every single seam it ever had, in a gentle wave, and then decentigrated all of it. The sheer amount of force in that is just insane

3:53 I am not allowed to actually tell you where it is. Well I can, here it is: RAF spadeadam The information I had was: - it's in cumbria, England - the sign said electronic warfare tactics range - Hammond said 'it is a 21 century warfare range (the busiest in europe) So that's how u find things on the internet

I think the most important thing to remember is that though Fawkes didn’t come up with the plot, it couldn’t have happened without him. After Fawkes was arrested the conspirators made their way to Holbeche House, which is now a nursing home in Dudley, but in those days would have been considered to be in Staffordshire. Whilst there, the plotters realised the supply of gunpowder they’d taken with them was damp, so they attempted to dry it in front of an open fire, with obvious results. It just goes to show that Catesby might have had charisma, but the whole substance of the plot depended on Fawkes. Without him the plotters would have been clueless.

@skeletonbuyingpealts7134

9 ай бұрын

British History is a cartoon

I like when Richard says, “We light these for a blast that never happened.” Well thanks to ITV, it has now. 😂

I think I have a new favorite explosion. The cement truck from Mythbusters has been demoted.

@lunabluevinemassacre6182

3 жыл бұрын

No, but it's close

@willmfrank

2 жыл бұрын

That's Sidney Alford for ya; he "wants Big Boom" more than Jamie does.

It's fascinating to watch the roof "unzip" in slow motion...

It's not old Top Gear that made Hammond, Clarkson and May famous. It's their narration that makes everything feel interesting, which includes Top Gear. Irreplaceable, these 3..

@aliencyborg3660

3 жыл бұрын

I can't agree more with this 👍

@leejk3926

3 жыл бұрын

James' Japan series on Amazon Prime also shows this

@shananagans5

2 жыл бұрын

They are like the Beetles. They are all great on their own but when you get them all together, there is a little extra magic.

@patrickdoyle9369

Жыл бұрын

Over paid idiots. Stupid to boot.. But then again so were the people responsible for paying them.

@celtoloco788

Жыл бұрын

Hammond has a great series, Egineering Connections, its pure quality. He plays dumb on the TG and Amazon show, but he's not.

I am amazed that a feature film has never been made about this incident. With all of the remakes that keep coming out, this would be an intriguing original subject.

@bombercountyblues

4 жыл бұрын

Amazon put out a 3 parter recently called gunpowder... not bad.

@philaypeephilippotter6532

4 жыл бұрын

@@bombercountyblues Referencing the *Guy Fawkes* incident is the 1943 *British* comedy movie *My Learned Friend,* which is worth seeing anyway. It's not public domain yet.

@SKILLIUSCAESAR

Жыл бұрын

@@bombercountyblues thnx for tip!

@celladorestark2047

Жыл бұрын

Watch v for vendetta

@skeletonbuyingpealts7134

9 ай бұрын

​@@bombercountybluesThe Kit Harington, one right?

The BEST documentary for Guy Faulkes night 🥰 O.O.K 👌🏼💙

An impressive documentary of what might have been. Though as they said at the end even if the gunpowder gone off and the King and Parliament killed the plot wouldn't have worked. The largely protestant population would have just gone mad with rage and brutally killed every single Catholic they found.

“Tonight on Bottom Gear: James drives away, I call people “blithering idiots”, and Richard blows up a replica of parliament”

Most entertaining thing l’ve watched in 6 months

When Richard was walking into the old building, and it was silhouetted, and he said, he needed some boring dude who knew a lot of boring stuff... I really thought / hoped the shaggy haired man he was walking with was James May! That would have been amazing, and I am sure James knows this stuff 😂

I have been involved in some very big concrete pours of pilecap segments. But 650 tons in one continuous pour is huge. Even organising the pumps so you don't have a failed pump ending the event is hard. The only thing you can do is pour slowly & keep going, to keep the batching plants in pace with you.

@celtoloco788

Жыл бұрын

sounds like a serious job

@howwwwwyyyyy

Ай бұрын

That's interesting, how do you harden that much properly and get the air out?1000 vibrators?

The physics of a great explosion. There's nothing quite like it.

Secret location lol ... electronic warfare tactics range + Cumbria = RAF Spadeadam

@thenameisgsarci

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think he gave out some obvious clues already. XD

Richard Hammond does “Mythbusters” at Eskmeals range…. Topped off with some hiking round the Lake District…. Perfect!! 😊

54:26 that's what killed many many soldiers on warships back then, when the floor is pushed so fast your body can't compensate, they literally got their bones shattered by the acceleration... gruesome shit

7:43 Who now wants to see a Guy Ritchie movie covering this planning and plot?

Hammond '' I can't tell you the location of this place'' Then he wears a hard hat with the company name on it. Priceless TV cock up ! 🤣🤣🤣

Decayed gunpowder refers to the fact that gunpowder separates over time; not whether it becomes clumpy or not with water. Gunpowder stored in barrels was known to separate, with the saltpetre in particular rising to the surface of the barrel. For this reason, gunpowder barrels were turned over every couple of weeks. However, with the postponement of the opening of Parliament from July 1605, the conspirators split up with Guy Fawkes heading to the Netherlands. So nobody would have been left to tend to the barrels of gunpowder meaning that it very likely separated in the months until Fawkes returned to London.

@TransmissionEpicts

Жыл бұрын

Interesting observation! How might this have affected the explosion, potentially?

@skeletonbuyingpealts7134

9 ай бұрын

​@@TransmissionEpictsInstead of the fires of hell it'd only be the fires of hades

@skeletonbuyingpealts7134

9 ай бұрын

John Grant disagrees

@MrMonkeybat

8 ай бұрын

I thought corned gunpowder stopped the separation of the ingredients. Clumpy gunpowder is just bigger corns.

“It was a stupid plan” is a perfect summary of the gunpowder plot

@CasperScott-qq6ip

9 ай бұрын

The plot it's self could have easily happened. It nearly did. Night before the plot is discovered is a pretty close call. What is stupid is to think it will lead to a Catholic resurgence. More likely a witch hunt

Keep it up.I love science.

Watch this every year! 💥👌🏼 The best 💙

I sometimes wonder if there was any connection between the plotters and Dublin In Ireland? Surely they may have been inspired to use Gunpowder after Dublin was partially destroyed by a Gunpowder explosion in 1597? In Dublin the explosion was caused by 104 barrels of Gunpowder,and if it could cause so much damage to a small city,surely the Gunpowder plotters would have learnt from this?

@gezzarandom

Жыл бұрын

The only real connection between the plotters and Ireland was a few tried to flee there after the plot was exposed.

@celtoloco788

Жыл бұрын

im sure it gave them the idea, would have been major news at the time

@skeletonbuyingpealts7134

9 ай бұрын

Something that invigorated them, probably

I love the fact that the soldiers are wearing hi-vis waistcoats over their camouflage jackets. 😂

@nickyjlyons

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

Great Arup security contribution to this programme. Well worth a watch

The part that was missed was that the people of the country never actually wanted to celebrate the plot being stopped, it wasnt important to them, so the king enforced it by making threats to the nation. Great way to make them love you lol

@howwwwwyyyyy

Ай бұрын

Wasn't he the same nutter that wrote the malificus macarum?

Love watching our history..x

Absolutely superb documentary and experiment.

Annual reminder that guy was onto something

Dr. Sidney Alford (OBE, 2015) passed away this year on the 27th of January, at the age of 86. RIP.

@KingIjazMalik

2 жыл бұрын

So Bye Than

@cromwellg60

2 жыл бұрын

He seemed like a fantastic old British eccentric. They dont make them like that any more. RIP

@bradmiller7486

9 ай бұрын

The man waz a genius with explosives, and came up with materials, applications, and devices that going to be classified for DECADES.

We need more Guy Fawkes's

I imagine the thought of the operating officer going back home .." did you had a good day Dear ?" ..... "excellent , I blew up parliament ! "

You know what I find interesting is that I just watched V for vendetta yesterday which is saved to my hard drive not a website and yet here it is, on KZread, showing up in a list that shows up on my home page, a documentary about guy fawke..... hmmmm

2:25 honesty I thought it was James May till he opened his mouth ahaha

@sophiemorgan_

3 жыл бұрын

omg aha same🤣

@jellisquared1702

3 жыл бұрын

Haha! Me too 😂😂😂

That was great ..thoroughly enjoyed that.

Watched this in History class earlier, was quite good. A real shame my friend was in isolation

Killed it!

I think that had Guy have lit the fuse, it most probably would have been the single biggest explosion in the world at that time.

@nathanballard4355

3 жыл бұрын

**edit - man made

@nathanballard4355

3 жыл бұрын

The question I would love answered is, how would it have changed the present.

@bradmiller7486

9 ай бұрын

​@@nathanballard4355ooooo ... that IS a very good "alternate history" takeoff point!

Guy Fawkes - the only man to enter the Houses of Parliament with honest intentions! lol

@sahhull

4 жыл бұрын

And a means to carry it out

@a44489

16 күн бұрын

​@@sahhull bk then try today

Very interesting video!!

(The Intro) Be careful with that bloody lantern!

I like the idea to recreate the Guy Fawkes plan and how it would end,

Ah yes, I think we're all familiar with medieval construction techniques that involve a queue of a dozen cement trucks. That's the attention to historical detail I demand from my documentaries.

@onlyme219

11 ай бұрын

Totally agree

@SergyMilitaryRankings

7 ай бұрын

You miss the point entirely

As a person who played around wi... ...uhhh, *_experimented_* with black powder in various forms of containment in his youth, I expected a large blast, but... *Holy **_Guacamole_** !!* This reminds me of the Tianjin blast, probably the largest DDT (Deflagration to Detonation Transition) in recorded history !! Also, I'm curious to know how much this one-shot experiment cost.

@ThePuschkin1986

2 жыл бұрын

production of the entire show cost 1 million GBP, with the parliament building set alone 200k.

@leggomygopro8219

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePuschkin1986 Hey Wow !! Thanks for the reply !!

@skeletonbuyingpealts7134

9 ай бұрын

Worth it

his face at the end tho LOL

This Sidney bloke is a right character haha

I wonder how many scientific papers that have come out from this. The project is ginormous and had lots and lots of technical facts briefly mentioned and considerably compressed by Richard Hammond in front of the camera, so the viewers wouldn't get bored and hopefully doesn't break the immersion from the story. Which they've managed to do. I mean, when they blasted only a barrel of gun powder, they had to then give the raw results to explosion experts, indicating that it had never done before. So there's no paper they could use as the 1/36th basis of what they were going to do. This is just so big. I've watched some of Richard Hammond's own documentaries before, which also had some scientific demonstrations. But they're all mostly scaled down version of the real thing that's built/done, so there are papers they could refer to and just scale it down. This though, they did it for real. Had to rent (I guess?) a classified research area for weeks, hire a construction company to build quite a large building (honestly, the initial sketches tricked my brain, looked like a typical brick house), using up all the cement mixer trucks in a county, divert air traffic, possibly halting military exercise around the facility and the research facility itself. For an hour long TV show. I couldn't imagine a TV station in my country would spent the same amount of money for a year.

I'm disappointed we didn't get to see the ITV news.

Why does a 720p video look like it was recorded in 1990.

@spacexfan1281

3 жыл бұрын

All of top gear, unless 18-23 episodes looks like 90s

Come back Guy Fawkes all is forgiven!

In todays day and age guy Fawkes would probably be given a pardon being a ground breaking explosive expert and put to work for the state

That explosion would make mythbusters blush.

@Boomcheeks

3 жыл бұрын

I dunno, that cement truck they did was pretty crazy if I remember right.

@copperdragon9214

3 жыл бұрын

Boomcheeks true, but the cement truck vaporized. This got dismantled in a linear motion.

@Boomcheeks

3 жыл бұрын

@@copperdragon9214 Yeah I just watched the truck again and have to admit this was probably the more pleasing explosion.

Holy crap that was beautiful

That explosion made me cry 😂😂😢😮

I'm from the UK and this would have been on TV during my late teenage years, but I've never seen it nor heard of it until now. Anyhoo..... They left one side of the building open which would have reduced the blast a tad, wow.

@dwayne_dibley

5 ай бұрын

From memory, it was 2005, so the same year as the bombings. Put a few people off as I recall.

His face at the end though!

In reference to James the First's speech, and it's commentary; it sounds vaguely familiar. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935, perhaps?

Pleasant looking powders, esp the white one

@YouMineNL

3 жыл бұрын

Heard it smells real good too

was the original gunpowder mixture corned? Corning gunpowder by first wetting it and then drying it then breaking it up again into coarse granules increases the powders explosive potential by quite a bit.

@bradmiller7486

9 ай бұрын

Also, keeps it from separating into basic components, over time.

I'm waiting for Hammond to try to demonstrate the plot and accidentally actually blow up parliament

This guy Fawkes!

If you are here cuz of your history teacher raise your hand 🙋🏽‍♀️

Fantastic but I wonder just how expensive setting the whole thing up cost , like the explosion sky high

Love it

Man the concussion off that must have been intense, I do civil war reenacting and know what a few pounds of black powder can feels like going off, but I can't imagine one tonne

@bradmiller7486

9 ай бұрын

A 3-lb ship's gun (pirate re-enactors) firing wad only feels like a hard body punch at 50+ meters.

This just makes me wanna watch top gear and the grand tour

Hammond: "The searches were ordered reportedly on the wisdom of the king." Me: Air-quotes "wisdom." Sounds more like someone dimed out the lot of 'em.

@gezzarandom

Жыл бұрын

One of the plotters wrote a letter warning a catholic lord to stay away from the opening of parliament, which was then passed onto the authorities. So you’re right, someone did dime them out.

@oldsol2012

Жыл бұрын

James I -- was uncannily intelligent. He interpreted the hidden meaning in the note. "As soon as it takes to burn this note, you will be out of danger". He Took the meaning to be "it" would be over in a flash. Gunpowder.

Watching in my fawkes mask✊😉

imagine if they had the super frame rate cameras that we've got nowadays...fantastic !

"While i search up a place to blow up a building" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Yeah, I'm watching 'V for Vendetta' immediately......

Hammond sounds like he's on helium the whole show XD

You know how when you realize something minor in something and it bothers You forever....the audio of this documentary is well wrong. I love Richards voice... normally....after a few minutes I realized that this is been pitched and maybe even sped up.... Can't unrealise it.... Haha

RAF Spadeadam, very secret. Much wow. :P

Can someone do it now please more than ever.

Excellent programming, excellent fun and afterwards they all went to the kings head, or in this case it came to them! Lol and too think old Fawkes set all those barrels whilst smoking his favourite briar pipe stuffed with old navy shag and English hemp mixture, seems safety wasn't such an issue in his day, either that or I just made that observation up for no real reason, you decide as ever!

Good on you Richard...SOMETHING INTERESTING ON KZread

Its an interesting point that even if the plot had actually gone off academic opinion doubts it would have led to a catholic restoration. It would have produced a vengeful backswing of opinion against Catholics. Events like this near mixed delayed catholic freedom of worship 300 years and even then it only narrowly passed into law. I dont want to think how long it would have taken if the plot had gone off. It isnt just the political establishment that would have been killed but given that london was predominantly wooden the collateral casualties would have been more than 9/11. A conservative estimate is 30 thousand

CA BOOOOM. EXCELLENT

If the producers of this show had any idea of Richard Hammonds legacy to come with controlling vehicles, or rather the lack there of, something tells me he would not have gotten this job....

How long did it take for stuff to stop falling from the sky?

I love the Motherland!!!

One of the best documentaries ive seen by one of my favorite presenters

The reason for secrecy is it is classed as a explosive and it truly is that. Static friction, electrical current or hot sparks/flame can ignite it. Friction detonation is far more risky if it's in contact with a ferrous metal. I would not want to be the driver of that truck and it must be packaged in a particular way so as to counter how hydroscopic it is and accidental discharge.

Blown to smithereens - all of it, and everyone in it! Excellent documentary 🙂! Glad it didn't happen back in 1605 🙂!

@patrickdoyle9369

Жыл бұрын

Glad it didn't happen you say back then.. And how would it have effected you today... Answer in no way at all..

@bosola7168

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickdoyle9369 That's not strictly true. The knock-on effect of a successful Gunpowder Plot would have reverberated for centuries, particularly for Catholics and Protestants. The fact that you wouldn't be celebrating Bonfire Night (and maybe hundreds of firework accidents might not have happened as a result), is perhaps the least of the many repercussions we might still be experiencing today. That's the thing about history - it doesn't always stay in the past.

@teeteringonthebrink.305

6 ай бұрын

@@bosola7168 "That's the thing about history - it doesn't always stay in the past." That's such a good quote with a ring of truth. Is it your own? I like it very much.

Watching this again. Been a min since. The pressure from the blast would have shattered bones and well organs well... yeah... Crazy... As for most people that have been victims of land mines and so on it's the pressure of the blast that had done most of the damage.

Guy Fawkes is England's Heemeyer.

Good documentary, but I hate the contrived drama. I'm sure they would have secured their source of gunpowder well before they began erecting the huge replica Westminster... but everything needs a plot I guess

As a Catholic I condemn the Gunpowder Plot. But I understand why they did. It is natural to retaliate against your oppressor.

@gordonpeden6234

4 жыл бұрын

So you can sympathise with ISIS? IRA? Good Queen Bess?? (She killed a few non-Catholics)

@gordonpeden6234

4 жыл бұрын

Oops, Scratch Good Queen Bess! Insert Bloody Mary.

@cambs0181

4 жыл бұрын

My father is a Catholic. We still had the fireworks in the garden when I was a kid.