The Culture Show
HILARY MANTEL - CASE HISTORIES
BBC Two (not Scotland) Sat 27th Sep 7:30pm - 8pm
Repeat: BBC Two Scotland Today 8pmBritish author Hilary Mantel is arguably best known for taking on the Tudor period in her novels about Thomas Cromwell, the award-winning Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies, which form the first two-thirds of a trilogy. However, this special edition of The Culture Show suggests that even when she's writing about a psychic medium from present-day Surrey, as she did in the darkly comic Beyond Black, she's still engaged in historical fiction because her characters are united by one thing - the need to confront their own pasts. James Runcie talks to Mantel about dealing with the ghosts of everyone from Henry VIII to Lady Diana, and finds out why her latest collection of short stories contemplates the possibility that Margaret Thatcher was assassinated in
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