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Report from the Whitbread literary awards. Includes comment from winners Diane Roe, Christopher Hope and Peter Ackroyd. Judge Martin Amis also comments. Female reporter not identified.
Carol Allen interviews author Salman Rushdie on his novel, The Satanic Verses, winning the Whitbread novel section prize. He says he hopes the award may help the ban on the book to be lifted in India.
Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses has been voted winner in the novel section of the Whitbread Literary awards but only made the shortlist of the Booker Prize. There have been rumours since the...
Sue Jameson reports on the Whitbread Book of the Year award, won by Paul Sayer, a first-time novelist and psychiatric nurse, for The Comfort of Madness.The book expected to win was The Satanic Verses by...
Speech by writer, Kazuo Ishiguro, following the award of the Booker Prize for his novel, The Remains of The Day. In his speech he paid tribute to Salman Rushdie, the author in hiding following the fatwa...
A.S. Byatt on winning the Booker prize for her Victorian romance novel, Possession, the positive aspects of the award for fiction, the effect of the end of the Net Book Agreement and her next projects....
Camilla Affleck reports on Richard Holmes’s biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge: Early Visions - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year award. Includes Holmes reading from his book and talking...
Interview with former Booker Prize judge Nicholas Mosely who discusses this years prize, and the reasons for his resignation from the judges board. Charlie Stayt interviews. For breakfast show.
Report on the 25th Booker Prize Awards at London’s Guildhall at which author Roddy Doyle won the grand prize for his novel, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. Speakers are writers Salman Rushdie and Malcolm Bradbury;...
Richard Littlejohn interviews actor, comedian and writer Michael Palin, coinciding with the NCR book award for non-fiction at the Savoy Hotel in London where he is one the judges. He talks about the books...
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