Wolf Hall: Who's Who?

Not Just the Tudors

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explores the lives of the cast of Tudor courtiers who appear in Wolf Hall, including Thomas Cromwell, Richard Rich, Thomas Howard and Eustace Chapuys. She's joined by Dr. Lauren Mackay to discuss their portrayal in Wolf Hall and what happened to them in real life after the demise of Cromwell. The episode reveals the intricate politics, personal loyalties and enduring impacts of these characters on English history.

Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb.
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0:27.6	Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome to not just the Tudors from History Hit,
0:33.3	the podcast in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,
0:37.7	from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise.
0:43.1	Relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.
0:47.6	Not in other words just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.
1:05.5	Thomas Cromwell, Henry the 8th's right-hand man,
1:07.4	once wrote to Sir Thomas Wyatt,
1:09.8	a premier poet and diplomat at the Tudor Court, that Henry was the mirror
1:11.2	and the light of all kings and princes in Christendom.
1:15.6	This epithet was adopted by Hilary Mantal for the third book of her award-winning trilogy,
1:21.1	which began with Wolf Hall and which has recently and beautifully been adapted into a six-part
1:26.8	drama series for the BBC by
1:28.9	director Peter Cosminsky. Mark Rylance plays Cromwell, Damien Lewis, is Henry.
1:36.3	The wonder of Wolf Hall, both as a set of novels and in stage and screen adaptations,
1:42.4	is that it has beguiled both those blissfully ignorant of the history
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