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The Reith Lectures Hilary Mantel Episodes

    Adaptation

    Hilary Mantel on how fiction changes when adapted for stage or screen.

    Can These Bones Live?

    Hilary Mantel on how historical fiction can make the past come to life.

    Silence Grips the Town

    The story of how historical obsession killed a Polish writer, told by Hilary Mantel.

    The Iron Maiden

    How do we construct our pictures of the past asks Hilary Mantel.

    The Day Is for the Living

    Art can bring the dead back to life, argues the late novelist Hilary Mantel.