Songs For All Seasons

Today's Song of the Day is, unsurprisingly, a song about Guy Fawkes Night , aka Bonfire Night, aka  Fireworks Night aka Gunpowder Treason Day. Unless you slept through primary school (or happen to be from outside the UK)  you're likely aware that today marks the day when the nation comes together to celebrate the thwarting of the Gunpowder Plot devised by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators, who aimed to obliterate Parliament and King James I back in 1605. This day is traditionally filled with dazzling fireworks displays and roaring bonfires, where we cast an effigy of Guy Fawkes himself into the flames, though, in more recent years, other notorious figures have taken his place. What you might not know is that in the aftermath of the Plot, the government enacted an Act of Parliament mandating an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot’s failure. We all know the verse: Remember, remember! The fift...

Today's Song of the Day is, unsurprisingly, a song about Guy Fawkes Night , aka Bonfire Night, aka  Fireworks Night aka Gunpowder Treason Day. Unless you slept through primary school (or happen to be from outside the UK)  you're likely aware that today marks the day when the nation comes together to celebrate the thwarting of the Gunpowder Plot devised by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators, who aimed to obliterate Parliament and King James I back in 1605. This day is traditionally filled with dazzling fireworks displays and roaring bonfires, where we cast an effigy of Guy Fawkes himself into the flames, though, in more recent years, other notorious figures have taken his place. What you might not know is that in the aftermath of the Plot, the government enacted an Act of Parliament mandating an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot’s failure. We all know the verse: Remember, remember! The fift...