Wolf Hall recap: episode three – the purse strings are in Cromwell's hands

Cromwell is now ‘the man who writes the laws’, but he wants an improved role. Meanwhile, the king’s marital merry-go-round is moving – and a baby is on the wayPeter Straughan, whose ways we’re getting to know, likes to work his episodes around hinted themes. Often it’s only with hindsight we can pick them up, but it’s one of the joys of his richly satisfying (so far) adaptation.The third instalment opens in 1531. Two years on. The camera lingers a minute or two in close up on the f