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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.

Screenwriter, and newly minted Oscar winner, Peter Straughan is fascinated by stories of loyalty and betrayal. In Episode Five of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, Cromwell’s loyalty is under question. Today, Peter joins the podcast to discuss adapting and writing this captivating drama series.

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0:00.0	Viking believes that a journey on the rivers of the world can be an experience designed for the thinking person.
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0:16.2	I'm J. Slay Cobb, and you're listening to Masterpiece Studio.
0:20.3	In the previous episode of Wolf Hall, The Mirror in the Light,
0:23.7	Queen Jane tragically dies from complications after giving birth to her son Edward.
0:28.6	While Henry's heart still is, and may forever be with his late wife,
0:32.6	he feels that it is his duty as king to remarry.
0:35.7	By episode five, Henry is engaged to the German princess Anne of Cleves,
0:40.4	a marriage rooted more in political alliances than love.
0:44.1	He feels that this duty to the nation shouldn't end with him.
0:48.7	Her cousin?
0:50.6	The Duke of Bavaria.
0:52.9	It appears to me that our friendship with the German states might be further strengthened if we made a match between him and Mary.
1:03.0	A few days later, while Henry's fiancée Anne is en route to England to meet him for the first time,
1:09.0	Henry hatches a plot to surprise his new bride
1:11.6	before she arrives, a scheme that has everyone worried.
1:15.7	My lord, I have decided to make speed to Rochester and greet the bride in my own person.
1:21.2	Why, sir?
1:22.7	Only be a day or two before she arrives.
1:25.3	I want to nourish love.
1:27.7	Episode five is a roller coaster for Henry's fixer, Thomas Cromwell.
1:31.8	He fields his master's request, demands, and vexations to varying degrees of success.
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