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.
Yes, I recognise that I may be a terrible reactionary, completely out of tune with the times.

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