Hilary Mantel
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Sep 20, 2026
Dominic SandbrookHOST
They're turning the melodrama right up to the maximum.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
So Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, or Hilary Mantel in A Place of Greater Safety.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
But in this series, we will be looking behind those images to explore exactly what happened and why, and we have an amazing cast of characters.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
So we'll be talking about, um, the revolutionaries, people like Danton and Robespierre.
Tom HollandHOST
They're turning the melodrama right up to the maximum.
Tom HollandHOST
So Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities or Hilary Mantel in A Place of Greater Safety.
Tom HollandHOST
But in this series, we will be looking behind those images to explore exactly what happened and why.
Tom HollandHOST
And we have an amazing cast of characters.
SallyPANELIST
from Rebecca and the book is beautiful and the and the spreadges sprayed edges for those oh I haven't seen it yet it's really pretty really lovely really good really lovely and I'm sure it's going to be a real treat and Rose Tremaine I mean what yeah she's well indeed though
Susie WildeHOST
I have to say some of Rose Tremaine what I love about her is a bit like Hilary Mantel she
DorotaPANELIST
keeps writing she writes very different books yeah
Susie WildeHOST
so
Marlon JamesGUEST
I'm trying to think if I've met a two-time winner yet.
Marlon JamesGUEST
I almost did, but then COVID happened because I was supposed to interview Hilary Mantel.
Marlon JamesGUEST
You
Kerri MillerHOST
love her work, right? I adore her work.
Marlon JamesGUEST
Why
Kerri MillerHOST
better than Wolf Hall?
Marlon JamesGUEST
I think because I think some of Hilary Mantel's biggest strengths are sassiness.
Marlon JamesGUEST
And, you know, I mean...
Giselle KiralyHOST
The Tudor home of the Seymour family known as Wolf Hall.
Giselle KiralyHOST
which you may have heard from Hilary Mantel's books or the TV series based on them.
Giselle KiralyHOST
It's a place that holds so much incredible Tudor history, and for centuries, it was lost.
Giselle KiralyHOST
Why? Because Wolf Hall was demolished in 1723.
Jonti ClaypoleGUEST
They're born just a few years apart.
Jonti ClaypoleGUEST
Uh, for anyone who loves Hilary Mantel and Wolf Hall, if you remember the character of Rafe, who, who is part of, um, Thomas Cromwell's household- Chapman a- actually sort of grew up partly in that, or worked in the household of Ralph Sadler when he was older.
Jonti ClaypoleGUEST
So there's a nice kind of connection to Mantle land there.
Jonti ClaypoleGUEST
And he, in the 1590s, starts translating Homer from Greek into English.
Meg MasonGUEST
fourth wall breakage at the end.
Meg MasonGUEST
And I think that was because the tone of the novel, you know, I read Hilary Mantel the other day saying, when I start a novel, all I'm thinking to myself is how does this novel sound? How does this novel sound? So as soon as it's almost an extension of the idea of the voice of the character, it's like, how does the whole novel you read? And Sophie's quite an odd novel, like the tone, because it's her internal monologue, but it's also in the third person.
Meg MasonGUEST
It's it has her naivety and her earnestness all through the narrative.
Meg MasonGUEST
And you sort of get this sense of us being slightly suspended above it all.
Tony WatkinsHOST
Yeah.
Tony WatkinsHOST
In Hilary Mantel's book, Bringing Up the Bodies in her Wolf Hall trilogy, she makes Thomas More the villain of the piece when it comes to Tyndale's death and blames him.
Tony WatkinsHOST
But my understanding is that he's not really responsible.
Tony WatkinsHOST
But I mean, how does all of that work out? I mean, it is more behind the scenes.
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before such an annoying
Meg MasonGUEST
question no no it's not because i'm fascinated with it in the readers that i mean in the books that i read as well so brother of the more famous jet was the first time i'd ever really seen that and pursuit of love by nancy mitford which is equally you know a seminal text for me you think you're reading a really light book until some point through it when you're like this is so sad you know and by the end you're in absolute floods but I've never been able to describe how you do it because you're not sitting there thinking oh now's the time for a joke you know now's the time to do something serious but then the other day I was looking through you know how sometimes you screenshot pages of books I mean photograph them and mark them up to send them to somebody and I was going back through my camera roll and there was a quote there from Hilary Mantel which I hope I can recite Just imagine it would be slightly better than however I recite it because she's such a genius.
Meg MasonGUEST
But it said, a writer does not sail up to her desk every day saying, now I will be funny.
Meg MasonGUEST
She crawls to her desk, leaking shame and despair.
Debbie WosskowGUEST
I'm a fiction reader.
Debbie WosskowGUEST
And mine's from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, which is, in the words of Thomas Cromwell, he's my political, long-term political hero, which is the things you think are disasters in your life are not disasters, really.
Debbie WosskowGUEST
Out of every ditch, a path, almost anything can be turned around if only you can see it.
Oliver CummingHOST
Bored advice that sounds right, but is wrong.
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