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Radio 4,5 mins

Was Saint Thomas More heartless and cruel?

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Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall begins this week on the TV. In it Thomas More is portrayed as heartless and cruel. Historians Tracy Borman and Michael Walsh discuss whether this is too harsh a revision of character for the Catholic saint who created Utopia.

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