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Season 1

  • S01E01 Three Card Trick

    • January 21, 2015
    • BBC Two

    Thomas Cromwell's patron Cardinal Wolsey is dismissed as Lord Chancellor & forced to flee his palace. The old noble families of England, jealous of their own right to advise the king, have long waited for this moment. Lacking a male heir, the King is desperate to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon.

  • S01E02 Entirely Beloved

    • January 28, 2015
    • BBC Two

    Cardinal Wolsey has been forced out of court to travel north to his archdiocese in York. As Wolsey retreats north, he urges Cromwell to get close to Anne Boleyn. For Thomas Cromwell, this is only a tactical retreat; in time the cardinal will regain the King's favour.

  • S01E03 Anna Regina

    • February 4, 2015
    • BBC Two

    Although he has no official title, Cromwell is relied on more in the running of the king's affairs. Cromwell manoeuvres a bill through Parliament acknowledging Henry rather than the pope as head of the Church of England.

  • S01E04 The Devil's Spit

    • February 11, 2015
    • BBC Two

    Anne gives birth to a baby girl, Elizabeth. Henry does little to hide his disappointment. Anne is aware that her power in court rests on producing a male heir and in her paranoia, cracks appear in her relationship with Cromwell.

  • S01E05 Crows

    • February 18, 2015
    • BBC Two

    The Act of Supremacy has declared Henry supreme head of the church in England. But the Holy Roman Emperor and his ambassador, Eustache Chapuys, have refused to recognise either his new title or his marriage to Anne Boleyn.

  • S01E06 Master of Phantoms

    • February 25, 2015
    • BBC Two

    After uncovering treasonable offences, Cromwell exacts the ultimate revenge.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Peter Kosminsky Remembers... Wolf Hall

    • December 19, 2022

    Wolf Hall, one of the most critically acclaimed television dramas of recent years, was based on the first two of the late Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell novels and brought together a stellar cast that included Mark Rylance as Cromwell, Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn and Damien Lewis as King Henry VIII.

Season 2 - The Mirror and the Light

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Wolf Hall: The Inside Story

    • February 25, 2015
    • BBC Two

    After the success of the BBC drama Wolf Hall, Mark Rylance and the director Peter Kosminsky join Kirsty Wark in the Chapel Royal of Saint Peter Ad Vincula, the Tower of London, to look back over the series.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall

    • April 14, 2020
    • BBC Two

    Delving into the past and present of Hilary Mantel. Made across six months in the run-up to publication of The Mirror and the Light, the final book in Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning Tudor trilogy on the life of Thomas Cromwell, this film enjoys exclusive and extensive access to one of the world's greatest living writers, delving into Mantel's past and present as she describes a vivid imagination active from an early age and recounts with candour a tale of growing up with a dark family secret.