James Delingpole James Delingpole

How did Wolf Hall escape the attentions of the BBC’s diversity commissars?

Unlike with most historical dramas on the BBC, there were no moments in this where I wanted to throw rocks at the screen

Jewel in the crown: Timothy Spall as the Duke of Norfolk and Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in the new series of BBC1’s Wolf Hall. Credit: BBC/Playground Entertainment/Nick Briggs  
issue 23 November 2024

Wolf Hall is one of the few remaining jewels in the BBC’s tarnished crown. Presumably that’s why it was allowed to get off relatively lightly from the attentions of the Beeb’s resident diversity commissars.

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