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Post by geometryman on Feb 26, 2020 17:19:27 GMT
Saturday 7 March, 9.00pm - 10.00pm, BBC2
A one-off documentary filmed over the 6 months leading up to the publication (next week) of The Mirror And The Light.
Work can now begin on the follow-up TV series to Wolf Hall, which the Beeb have committed to, 5 years after the original was aired. There could be quite a wait - they have to try and get the cast back together for one thing.
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Post by marion on Feb 26, 2020 17:52:54 GMT
Did the original series cover Bring Up The Bodies as well as Wolf Hall? I suddenly thought I had no recollection of what happened in the second one because Anne Boleyn was executed in the first one, but I may be mistaken! I don't want to start it, only to discover I have already read it.
Edit. Just visited Wikipedia and yes, the series covered both books, so I have read it because I remember reading the end of Anne Boleyn. That is one hefty tome off the shelf then! I have just started Tombland which weighs a ton!
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Post by vicky on Feb 26, 2020 19:27:26 GMT
Brilliant books and brilliant television series. Thanks for drawing the documentary to my attention. I will certainly watch it. I have pre-ordered the new book in the series to be delivered on publication day. I could really do with re-reading the previous two before I start on it but I'm not sure I'll be able to hold out that long and I certainly haven't got the time to read them both in a week!
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Post by vicky on Mar 7, 2020 11:41:53 GMT
Don't forget, this is on tonight. I am really looking forward to it, especially since my copy of the new book arrived yesterday.
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Post by beverley61 on Mar 7, 2020 20:34:44 GMT
Thank you. I loved the first two books, but am reluctant to read the final one because we know the end.
Mantel said she dealt with this in the first chapter of the first book by having the execution first and that way she wasn't dreading the end because she had already written it.
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Post by beverley61 on Mar 7, 2020 20:35:58 GMT
I'm reading Tombland too, it's a brick. Not finding it as good so far - about a third of the way through.
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Post by beverley61 on Mar 7, 2020 22:02:27 GMT
Well that was brilliant, thoroughly well done.
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Post by vicky on Mar 8, 2020 7:20:50 GMT
I was rapt throughout the whole programme: what an amazing and interesting person she is to listen to. Her gift for language is just as evident in her speech as in her writing. I don't know of another writer with quite the same ability to take me so totally to the time and place she is describing.
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Post by beverley61 on Mar 8, 2020 10:49:02 GMT
It's like one of the heads said. We know the history but they don't and she gets that across so well. You feel like you don't know what is going to happen even though as each name emerges you do, as each conversation unfolds you're thinking don't say that or don't go there. Brilliant
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Post by marion on Mar 8, 2020 12:12:15 GMT
I'm reading Tombland too, it's a brick. Not finding it as good so far - about a third of the way through. Me too. I think the actual crime is what is letting this one down for me. I can't really engage with it. The book I liked least was Dark Fire though, too much about explosives for me. Tombland is currently one up from that. But even an inferior Samson is better than some at their best! I do wonder how much longer this series will go on for though as Shadlake is 47 now, with health issues. I hope he lasts until Mary's reign. Perhaps Sansom will do an Elizabethan series with a different protagonist. |
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Post by linseed on Mar 8, 2020 12:22:22 GMT
It took a while for me too. What I found fascinating was in the second half of the book when they are staying in the rebel camp. A rebellion I knew nothing about. The original crime gets a bit lost at that point. I too hope Shardlake will keep going a while longer, maybe Sansom will give him a longer life span than normal for that age, or he will send Barak out crime solving. It would be good to see his take on Mary’s reign, another Tudor I don’t know much about.
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Post by marion on Mar 8, 2020 12:29:41 GMT
Maybe that is how he will be killed off, burnt at the stake as a Protestant under Mary!!!!!! I hope not, of course.
I do like the character of Barak although he is a bit diminished at the moment, no longer quite the man of action he was (I realise that may change in the remaining two thirds of this book!).
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Post by linseed on Mar 8, 2020 16:11:57 GMT
Well he meets Mary in this book (not much of a spoiler), and I got the feeling that short meeting may be setting something up for the future
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Post by beverley61 on Mar 8, 2020 17:28:50 GMT
Well so far I seem to find it's getting bogged down trekking around Norwich in minute detail. I know he put the map in, but it's as if he is determined to prove he knows it. Sometimes I feel that when an author provides a map they feel obliged to visit all points of the compass, many of which have utterly no relevance.
Just been taken by the rebels.
I thought the interview with Mary was lack lustre and just put in to remind us she was there. I may be proved wrong later in the book.
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Post by marion on Mar 8, 2020 22:17:30 GMT
I hope I get to the Mary bit soon. More reading in bed shortly.
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Anymore to come?
