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Front Row: Hilary Mantel, Tim Burton, 56 Up

Hilary Mantel, Tim Burton, 56 Up

10/05/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Hilary Mantel, Tim Burton, 56 Up

Hilary Mantel on her sequel to Wolf Hall, Tim Burton on Dark Shadows, and 56 Up reviewed.

Mark Lawson talks to Hilary Mantel about her novel Bring Up The Bodies, a sequel to her Booker Prize-winner Wolf Hall. Tim Burton discusses his new film Dark Shadows.

With Mark Lawson. 

Hilary Mantel discusses her novel Bring Up The Bodies, a sequel to her Booker Prize-winner Wolf Hall. It focuses on the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn and, like Wolf Hall, the story is told from the point of view of Henry VIII's minister Thomas Cromwell. Mantel reflects on the art of writing historical fiction. 

Tim Burton's latest film Dark Shadows stars Johnny Depp as a 200 year old vampire, who finds himself in the 1970s. Burton explains how he was inspired by a 1960s gothic soap opera.

56 Up is the latest instalment of the landmark TV documentary series which has returned every seven years to focus on a group of people from varying social backgrounds who were first filmed at the age of seven. The new series revisits all but one of the original group. Rachel Cooke and Chris Dunkley review. 

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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