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Front Row: Costa Book Awards shortlist announced; Meera Syal; The Hunger Games review; Peter Bazalgette

Costa Book Awards shortlist announced; Meera Syal; The Hunger Games review; Peter Bazalgette

18/11/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Costa Book Awards shortlist announced; Meera Syal; The Hunger Games review; Peter Bazalgette

Costa Book Awards shortlist announced; Meera Syal; The Hunger Games; Peter Bazalgette.

The category shortlists for the 2014 Costa Book Awards; Meera Syal on her new stage role; the latest Hunger Games film reviewed; The Arts Council's Peter Bazalgette.

The shortlisted authors for the 2014 Costa Book Awards are announced. Critic Stephanie Merritt comments on the authors chosen in five categories: novel, first novel, poetry, biography and children's fiction.

Meera Syal discusses her latest stage role in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Katherine Boo, about life in the shadow of Mumbai's luxury hotels.

The final part of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay, has been split in two for the film version. Sophia McDougall reviews Mockingjay: Part 1.

Peter Bazalgette, Chair of Arts Council England, discusses his campaign to raise the profile of arts in the UK as the political parties write their manifestos for the General Election next May.

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