Tag: Hilary Mantel
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Return to Wolf Hall: Creating the Music for the Tudor TV Epic
– Chamber Score for String Quintet – by Michael Beek | Classical Music | November 8, 2024 If, like me, you were glued to the screen in early 2015 as Hilary Mantel’s riveting Wolf Hall made its television debut, you’ll be delighted to know that the sequel series (The Mirror and the Light) is just around the corner.…
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Wolf Hall Filming Locations
– West Country Backdrops – by Maisie Lillywhite | BBC News | November 8, 2024 Viewers from the West Country will be able to spot some very familiar backdrops when the second series of Wolf Hall begins on Sunday. The BBC series follows the rise and fall of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell, and is an…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Review – Return of Riveting Drama Worth the 10-Year Wait
– Shadow of the Axeman – by Pat Stacey | Irish Independent | November 7, 2024 Five out of Five Stars The second instalment of the TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s famous book returns to BBC1 on Sunday, November 10 and covers the last four years of Cromwell’s life. One of the rare negative reviews…
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Damian Lewis Reveals Touching Memory with On-Screen Love from Wolf Hall
– Jane Seymour – by Millie Jackson | Hello! Magazine | November 7, 2024 Ten years after Wolf Hall first brought the Tudor court of Henry VIII to our screens, the BAFTA-award-winning series is back. The adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel’s final book before her death in 2022, focuses on the final four…
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Debbie Wiseman’s Wolf Hall Music Score
– Tudor Composition and Soundtrack – by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw | BachTrack | November 7, 2024 The Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light soundtrack album is scheduled for release on December 13, 2024, available from Amazon. “These characters are experiencing these things in the present,” composer Debbie Wiseman tells me. “It feels like you’re with Thomas Cromwell…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Episode Guide and Cast of Characters
– Episode Titles, Synopsis, Air Dates & Cast – The second series of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light will comprise of six episodes, mirroring the first series. Episodes are set to be released weekly on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK beginning Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. and ending December…
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Wolf Hall Returns With a Fiery Henry VIII and Wise Counsellor Thomas Cromwell by His Side
– Still the Crown Jewel – by Ginny Dougary | Radio Times | November 9-16, 2024 Issue Excerpts from Feature Article: Star Damian Lewis and director Peter Kosminsky slip into character for Radio Times after almost ten years of the BBC historical drama Wolf Hall. Henry VIII is the character Damian Lewis plays in BBC1’s…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Review – A Sumptuous Return to the Political Snake Pit
– Buckle Up – by Carol Midgley | The Times | November 5, 2024 Four out of Five Stars Can it really be almost a decade since Claire Foy’s Anne Boleyn was led trembling to the scaffold in whipping wind to part company with her head? What a terrible scene, so brilliantly executed in Wolf Hall, the…