Great Fire of London the confession of a simple-minded French watchmaker named Robert Hubert, who claimed that he was an agent of the Pope and had started the Great Fire in Westminster. He later changed his story to say that he had started the fire at the bakery in Pudding Lane. Hubert was convicted, despite some misgivings about his fitness to plead, and hanged at Tyburn on 28 September 1666. After his death, it became apparent that he had been on board a ship in the North Sea, and had not arrived in London until two days after the fire started. These allegations that
Andrew Buchan 2014 Williamsburg Independent Film Festival. In July 2014 Buchan starred alongside Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal in Hugo Blick's eagerly anticipated political thriller "The Honourable Woman". This was broadcast on both BBC2 in the UK and the Sundance channel in the USA. In October 2014 he starred in ITV's "The Great Fire", portraying Thomas Farriner, the baker from Pudding Lane. In 2015 it was announced that Buchan was cast as the lead role in TNT drama pilot "Home" alongside Bethany Joy Lenz. Unfortunately "Home" was not subsequently serialised and remains unaired. On Christmas Day 2016 the lavish dramatisation of Jasper