' There are two kinds of writers: Moses writers, who find new paths, and Joshua writers. Our dream is to find Moses writers and to find them, when they are 22 and perhaps to find them among black women.'
(LARS GYLLENSTEK,
Secretary,
Swedish Academy)
The Nobel Prize is the oldest, most prestigious and richest literary award in the world. Why is it also the one shrouded in the greatest secrecy? Norman Thomas di Giovanni talks to members of the Swedish Academy, to the Director of the Nobel Foundation and to other writers and critics, reflecting on the prize's stormy history. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS followed by an interlude