In a special episode recorded in front of a live audience for the LRB’s Subject/Object event series, Helen and David talk to Hilary Mantel about power, monarchy and political intrigue, from the Tudors to the present: from Henry VIII to Boris Johnson, Thomas Cromwell to Dominic Cummings.

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