"Wolf Hall" is on BBC One tonight at 21:00. I found the books to be all but unreadable, but I am looking forward to this dramatisation. Anybody else planning to watch ?
I have noted the time and will be there watching (22.00 here). Reviews say that it pulls no punches and expects you to think (The Tudors, it is not!)..... looking forward to it. When I was 14 our headmaster (Oxonian History Graduate) took us for History and the period was Tudor politics; he started me on a life-long love-affair with the in-depth twists and turns of the period. Hope I will get even more background and it won't disappoint.
Saw it advertised and thought I'd give it a go (I like anything historical) but then saw that Friends With Benefits was on film 4 ( a step down from anything historical, but Ive never seen it). Ive now had a few drinks so wont view either (or if I do, I wont remember).
Once again i agree with Mikey (mustn't make a habit of this). I have only read the first book. It is my favourite period in history, about which I am quite knowledgeable, yet found it turgid in the extreme with a load of unnecessary detail which can only have come from the author's fervid imagination. I shan't watch it but will record it and have a look when I have nothing better to do.
Am planning to watch as it has good reviews. As someone is bound to ask about film locations, according to the National Trust magazine Spring 2015, 6 different NT properties are used, including 2 in Somerset: Montacute House, which stands in for Greenwich Palace, Henry VII's main London home at the time and Barrington Court. Also Lacock Abbey & Great Chalfield Manor (Wiltshire) and Horton Court (Gloucestershire) & Chastleton House (Oxfordshire)