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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Historian and television presenter Lucy Worsley brings us back to the 16th century to discuss the history of Tudor England. We talk about Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII’s reign, and how his eldest child, Mary Tudor, earned the nickname Bloody Mary.

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0:16.3	i'm jace lay cobb and you're listening to Masterpiece Studio.
0:23.2	Ten years ago, audiences were enraptured by a stunning achievement as both history and literature were brought to life on screen.
0:31.1	Wolf Hall transported viewers back to the dangerous and politically fraught world of Tudor England
0:36.2	and into the belly of the beast,
0:38.9	the candlelit halls of power, Hampton Court Palace during King Henry VIII's reign.
0:44.9	Wolf Hall, director Peter Kisminski's adaptation of the late author Hillary Mantel's
0:49.8	Booker Prize-winning historical novels, tells the infamous story of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's
0:55.4	tumultuous marriage, and Henry's break from the Catholic Church, as he names himself the
1:00.6	supreme head of the church in England.
1:02.6	Why does he come back now? I have been king for 20 years.
1:06.9	Because now is the vital time. Now is the time for you to become the king you should be,
1:13.7	the sole and supreme head of your kingdom.
1:17.7	Ask Anne should say the same.
1:20.3	She does.
1:21.6	She says we should no bow to Rome.
1:23.4	And if your father should come to you in a dream,
1:26.8	you take it the same way as you take this one.
1:29.6	They come to strengthen your hand.
1:32.9	Mirroring Henry's story, Wolf Hall also tells the rise of Henry's notorious fixer, Thomas Cromwell.
1:40.2	Do I keep you for what's easy? Do you think I've promoted you for the charm of your presence?
1:47.2	I keep you because you are a serpent. Do you not be a viper in my bosom.
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