34K views · 189 reactions | "You are not, in fact, squalid. You are not flea-ridden." Hilary Mantel dispels some myths about the 1500s and the notion of the 'dirty past'. | BBC Radio 4 | Facebook

3K views · 24 reactions | "You can't really understand our world without understanding the part that war has played." Professor Margaret MacMillan is giving the Reith Lectures this year. Her theme is war. https://bbc.in/2PwEfqA | BBC Radio 4 | Facebook

"As soon as we die, we enter into fiction." Hilary Mantel on the power of art to bring the dead to life. Listen to the full Reith Lecture 👉 https://bbc.in/31GCj43 | BBC Radio 4