BBC's Wolf Hall is good drama but not bad history

Forget about The Tudors. A new series captures what it was really like in the era of Henry VIII, writes

FROM sword-fighting lessons to wince-inducing corsets, every effort was made to ensure BBC Two’s upcoming Tudor epic Wolf Hall was as authentic as possible.

But actor Mark Rylance had one issue on the set of the six-part drama, adapted from Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies.