September 1666, a fire started in a London bakery, on Pudding Lane.
This inferno burned its way into history as the Great Fire of London, raging for four days and bringing the Capital City to its very knees. Cathedrals, shops, inns were all lost and 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants were made homeless.
September 1666, a fire started in a London bakery, on Pudding Lane.
This inferno burned its way into history as the Great Fire of London, raging for four days and bringing the Capital City to its very knees. Cathedrals, shops, inns were all lost and 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants were made homeless.
A gripping new drama is from the makers of Fleming and the movie Mrs Brown, The Great Fire brings that history to vibrant life through the eyes of the people on the ground a cross section of society from King Charles II, to Samuel Pepys, to Thomas Farriner the King's baker in whose premises the fire began.
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