Episodes

8 episodes in this season

Episode 1: Lynn Barber's Celebrity Masterclass

Episode 2: Sir Kenneth Clark: Portrait of a Civilised Man - A Culture Show Special

Episode 3: Edward St Aubyn - At Last?

Episode 4: Ryan Gander - The Art of Everything

Episode 5: Deller and Kane - Folk Devils

Episode 6: Tents - The Beginning of Architecture

Episode 7: Girls Will Be Girls

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Episode 8: Hilary Mantel - Case Histories

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Episode 8: Hilary Mantel - Case Histories

Season 19 · Episode 8 · Sep 27, 2014

Hilary Mantel is one of our most assured and successful novelists. She writes blackly comic novels set in the present and confronts our Tudor past in her Thomas Cromwell novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She reimagines famous figures from our history, or imagines for herself the life of a psychic medium in the suburbs of Surrey and Berkshire. In fact, everything she writes is historical fiction, because everyone she writes about must deal with their own past. James Runcie meets a writer who has conjured the ghosts of Henry VIII and Lady Diana, and whose latest collection of short stories contemplates the possibility that Margaret Thatcher was assassinated in 1983.

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The Culture Show

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Episode 8: Hilary Mantel - Case Histories

Season 19 · Episode 8 · Sep 27, 2014

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