The Booker Prize Ceremony 2023
Front Row comes live from the Booker Prize 2023, where Samira Ahmed will be finding out who has won the prestigious literary prize.
A special edition of Front Row, live from the Booker Prize for Fiction.
Samira Ahmed is joined on stage by Booker Prize judges actor Adjoa Andoh and Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro to discuss this year’s shortlist, before the chair of judges, novelist Esi Edugyan, announces the winner live on air.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who spent six years in detention in Iran, gives the keynote speech about the power of literature to take us to another world.
Front Row will also hear from all this year’s shortlisted authors, whose novels cover climate change, a democracy sliding into extremism, prejudice, grief and the complexities of race in America.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Olivia Skinner
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- Sun 26 Nov 2023 21:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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