Synopsis
A look at the world's first secret service. England has a new monarch and Robert Cecil exposes the most infamous terrorist threat in British history, the gunpowder plot.
- Programme: Elizabeth I's Secret Agents
- Episode: 3
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2017
- History
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