Tag: Hilary Mantel
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – The Titanic Tudor Drama is the Best TV You’ll See All Year
– Damian’s Henry is Outstanding – by Joel Golby | The Guardian | November 9, 2024 The cast are so incredible that even the bit parts feel like stars of the future. Peter Kosminsky’s rich, clever adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novels needs to be plunged into without distraction. It has been nine years since the…
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Interviews With the Cast and Creatives of Wolf Hall
– An Unforgettable Final Act – by Staff | BBC | November 9, 2024 Reuniting the creative team from the BAFTA and Golden Globe winning first series, The Mirror and the Light traces the final four years of Cromwell’s life. May, 1536. Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII’s second wife, is dead. As the axe drops,…
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Damian Lewis and Wolf Hall Composer Debbie Wiseman to be Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3
– The Composer’s Story – Channel: BBC Radio 3Date: Sunday, November 24, 2024Time: 7:15 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Composer Debbie Wiseman created the score for the first BBC television series of Wolf Hall and she’s just completed work on the second part of the story, The Mirror and the Light. With this Sunday Feature, Radio…
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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…