The Mirror and the Light will trace the final four years of Cromwell’s life, completing his journey from self-made man to the most feared, influential figur

Timothy Spall plays the Duke of Norfolk in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light. The actor replaces the late Bernard Hill, who previously held the role. Spall and Hill had crossed paths much earlier in their careers, voicing the titular superhero and his dastardly arch-nemesis in BBC Radio 4 sitcom Greywing, which aired in 1992.

After a monumental gap of almost a decade between Wolf Hall, and the current BBC sequel, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light, you could be forgiven for thinking you'd never get to

This adaptation of Hilary Mantel's final novel does justice to her ingenious ability to draw out nuance of Tudor politics