Southbank Centre's Book Podcast: Backstage at Man Booker 50
The second episode of our monthly literary podcast comes from our recent Man Booker 50 festival, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize.
In this edition of Southbank Centre’s Book Podcast, our Head of Literature and Spoken Word, Ted Hodgkinson speaks backstage with Golden Booker judges Robert McCrum and Kamila Shamsie, and we hear extracts from some of the festival highlights. This includes novelists Alan Hollinghurst and Marlon James discussing how fiction can capture lives on the margins of history, and the moment the winner of the Golden Booker Prize was announced.
‘There were some that felt as though they don’t speak to the moment we’re in anymore, and there were others which, even though they were written ages ago, seem somehow more vital now than they were then’
Kamila Shamsie, on past Booker Prize-winning novels