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Front Row: BBC National Short Story Award; Mark Lewisohn on The Beatles; The Fifth Estate

BBC National Short Story Award; Mark Lewisohn on The Beatles; The Fifth Estate

08/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, BBC National Short Story Award; Mark Lewisohn on The Beatles; The Fifth Estate

John Wilson reports live from the BBC National Short Story Award ceremony.

Arts news. John Wilson is at the BBC National Short Story Award ceremony to announce the winner; Mark Lewisohn on his epic biography of The Beatles; The Fifth Estate reviewed.

With John Wilson.

Front Row is live from the BBC National Short Story Award ceremony, where the chair of the judges, Mariella Frostrup, announces the winner of the £15,000 first prize, and we hear from the winning writer. 

The Beatles biographer and historian Mark Lewisohn discusses the first in his trilogy of books about the band, Tune In , which ends in 1962 as they're about to release their first single Love Me Do. The work is a weighty tome, running to 960 pages, and examines their lives week by week in the run-up to global fame, with the help of letters written by the group to their fans, which have been unearthed for the first time.

The Fifth Estate is cinema's take on the story of Wikileaks, played out through the friendship and subsequent rivalry of website activists Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl). Rosie Boycott reviews.

Producer Olivia Skinner.

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