&lt;p&gt;In a special episode recorded in front of a live audience, Helen and David talk to Hilary Mantel about power, monarchy and&amp;nbsp;political&amp;nbsp;intrigue. From the Tudors to the present, from Henry VIII to Boris Johnson, from Thomas Cromwell to Dominic Cummings.&amp;nbsp;A fascinating&amp;nbsp;insight into politics and the writer’s imagination, from one of the&amp;nbsp;greatest&amp;nbsp;modern novelists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mentioned in this Episode:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/mantel-pieces-royal-bodies-and-other-writing-from-the-london-review-of-books-hilary-mantel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mantel Pieces&lt;/em&gt;, a new collection of Hilary’s LRB essays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;‘Royal Bodies’ (from 2013)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.waterstones.com/product/the-wolf-hall-trilogy/hilary-mantel/9780008424510" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;The Wolf Hall trilogy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/a-place-of-greater-safety/hilary-mantel/9780008329730" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Place of Greater Safety&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/236-in-praise-of-hilary-mantel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;David and Helen on Hilary Mantel (from April 2020)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And as ever, recommended reading curated by our friends at the LRB can be found here: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://lrb.co.uk/talking" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lrb.co.uk/talking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &amp;#10;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '&gt;See &lt;a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for privacy and opt-out information.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Become a member at &lt;a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="https://plus.acast.com/s/talkingpolitics"&gt;https://plus.acast.com/s/talkingpolitics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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