I should not call them ‘characters,’ I should call them ‘people’ — they are real, even if they happen to be dead
- Hilary Mantel
This quote is from a lecture the late Dame Hilary Mantel gave in 2017 - listen and read along to it here:
Can these bones live?
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This is the fourth of Hilary Mantel’s Reith Lectures, broadcast on 4 July 2017 from Exeter University, Devon. It’s a beautiful and moving meditation on her craft.