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Hilary Mantel on the TV Wolf Hall

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In the City of London, behind the Bank of England, there is a little street called Austin Friars. Sober and narrow, it offers glimpse of a city garden, something sweetly natural at the granite heart of the establishment. The garden belongs to Drapers’...

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Wolf Hall filmed in National trust propoerties

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The attention to detail has been extraordinary, with a team of historians brought in to advise and a host of venerable locations used. Yet the BBC’s hotly anticipated new drama Wolf Hall could not have been made without one surprisingly low-tech accessory:...

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Judging a television series by its book

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Next week BBC2 will launch a major new drama series based on the Booker Prize-winning historical novels of Hilary Mantel. Wolf Hall will tell the gripping story of Thomas Cromwell, a ruthless commoner who inveigles his way into the court of Henry VIII...

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Wolf Hall on the cover of the RadioTimes this week

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By Kasia Delgado 12 January 2015 Another Tuesday, another jam-packed edition of Radio Times magazine. Here's what's inside this week... -Hilary Mantel on why she turned Thomas Cromwell from villain to Tudor hero -Damian Lewis on how his Eton schooldays...

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Damian Lewis on Wolf Hall

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Damian Lewis is stepping into the breeches of King Henry VIII in the upcoming BBC2 adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies – and has learned there's plenty to uncover about this memorable ruler. The tale charts...

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New adaptations in 2015

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Wolf Hall (January, BBC2) Former Homeland star Damian Lewis and Shakespearean actor Mark Rylance take top billing in this lavish six-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. The tale of Tudor intrigue...

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Wolf Hall: trailer

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Wolf Hall is heading to a television (tuned to BBC2) near you very soon - so what better way to prepare yourself for the screen adaptation of Hilary Mantel's award-winning novels than, well, er, a trailer... Charting the meteoric rise of Thomas Cromwell...

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Wolf Hall Preview

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For those, like me, who have eagerly devoured Hilary Mantel’s door-stopping Booker-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the experience was like being taken directly into the world of candlelit Tudor intrigue and the minds of its people. We...

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The BBC, a “uniquely precious institution”

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Peter Kosminsky, the director of BBC2’s lavish adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall books, has delivered an impassioned defence of the BBC. Speaking on the same day that the Corporation set out its plans for moving BBC3 online – a decision which the...

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Wolf Hall: New Pictures

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Mark Gatiss is looking conspiratorial in the latest pictures to be released for BBC Tudor drama Wolf Hall. The cast photos for the BBC1 adaptation feature the Sherlock star in fur-lined black robes and a rather peculiarly-shaped hat. Gatiss plays Thomas...

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