Ben Miles
Star of stage, screen, and TV; Ben played Thomas Cromwell in the RSC stage production of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, and later reprised that role in the staging of The Mirror And The Light in 2021.
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
Award winning author of a recent biography of Thomas Cromwell, A Life; Diarmaid is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and TV presenter.
Dr. Lauren Mackay
Author, TV presenter and Tudor history expert; Lauren is the author of The Wolf Hall Companion, an historical companion to Hilary Mantel’s critically acclaimed Wolf Hall trilogy.
Dr. Elizabeth Norton
Tudor, mediaeval and royal historian, writer, broadcaster and consultant; Elizabeth is the author of twelve acclaimed books specialising in the queens of England and the Tudor period.
Edmund Gordon
Edmund is an award-winning author, critic, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at King’s College London, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His first book, The Invention of Angela Carter received the Somerset Maugham Award.
Nicholas Pearson
Nicolas edited and published Hilary Mantel for nearly 20 years, including her twice Man Booker Prizewinning Wolf Hall trilogy, and was also Doris Lessing’s editor for the last years of her writing life.
Dr Owen Emmerson
A social and cultural historian, author of four books, and expert contributor to a number of television documentaries. For six years, he has worked as Castle Historian and Assistant Curator at the stunning Hever Castle in Kent.
Aurora Dawson-Hunte
Aurora is a young actor and screenwriter who made her international stage debut as Elizabeth Seymour in Hilary’s stage adaption of The Mirror and The Light.