Remembering Hilary Mantel

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Dame Hilary Mantel died on 22 September 2022 at the age of 70. Her acclaimed Wolf Hall trilogy - which brought the life of Thomas Cromwell so vividly to life - has sold more than five million copies worldwide. She won the Booker Prize twice - for Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and History Hit's Dan Snow pay tribute to one of the greatest English-language novelists of our century.

The Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. It was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Professor Cizal Lipscomb and this is not just the tutors.
0:05.6	If you were expecting the second of our Mary Rose specials, I beg your indulgence.
0:11.6	They will follow next week, but I couldn't let the passing of Dame Hiddory Mantel go unremarked.
0:30.0	We have recently learnt that Dame Hiddory Mantel died on the 22nd of September.
0:44.3	Dame Hiddory was a masterful writer of historical fiction.
0:49.6	You'll know her wolf-haul trilogy.
0:52.3	You might well also know her amazing book set against the French Revolution.
0:57.1	In fact, the revolutionaries are the protagonists, a place of greater safety.
1:01.6	Maybe you've read some of her modern novels, her memoir, her collections of short stories.
1:07.7	Her journalism in places like the LRB.
1:10.8	But it is with the story of Thomas Cromwell set against Henry VIII's court in the 1530s
1:17.0	that she is most familiar to us.
1:20.2	And she brought that period, a period I love so much, to thrilling, whole-sating, fizzing life.
1:28.9	She did fall that period in historical fiction.
1:32.2	What I Claudius did for the ancients, what Tolstoy did for the War of 1812.
1:38.6	And it is absolutely tragic that we have lost such a fine writer and thinker and person.
1:47.4	To commemorate the impact that she has made on us, on historical fiction and on history,
1:54.2	Dan Snow and I met to talk about the work of Hiddory Mantel.
2:05.4	Hi Susie, sad news.
2:07.4	Every time I think of Hiddory Mantel, I think of the tribute that she paid you.
2:11.8	You are too modest to admit this, but that was unbelievable.
2:14.7	In the last of her gigantic 16th century trilogy about the life of Thomas Cromwell,
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