Episode 1

The beheading of Anne Boleyn raises difficult questions as to who will succeed Henry VIII.

Anton Lesser reads the eagerly-awaited finale to Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning Thomas Cromwell series.

Omnibus of the first five of fifteen episodes abridged by Katrin Williams.

Hilary Mantel is one of the UK's most distinguished writers. Her two previous Thomas Cromwell novels, Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, both won the Booker Prize.

Producer: Justine Willett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.