Before The Blast
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, in the biggest historical and scientific experiment of its kind ever seen on television, Richard Hammond sets off on a quest to detonate a metric tonne of gunpowder beneath a full-sized reconstruction of the original House of Lords. On an old Cold War missile-testing site over a period of 2 months, building experts and engineers pour 650 tonnes of concrete into a steel framework to erect a ballistically accurate replica of the medieval building as it was when Guy Fawkes planned to blow it up.