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Podcast: Dame Hilary Mantel at Launde Abbey

23 September 2022

Hilary Mantel, at Launde Abbey

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Dame Hilary Mantel, the acclaimed author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has announced.

At an event at Launde Abbey in 2019, Dame Hilary reflected on the life of Thomas Cromwell and his place in the Reformation. The short talk that she gave at the start of the event is featured on this week’s podcast. It was recorded about a year before the publication of the final book in the triology, The Mirror & the Light (Fourth Estate) (Books, 12 June 2020).

The full event, at which the Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch also spoke, can be listened to here and here. An edited record of their talks and conversation can be read here.

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