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Front Row: Harriet Walter and Guy Paul; The Casual Vacancy; Amit Chaudhuri; The Folio Prize.

Harriet Walter and Guy Paul; The Casual Vacancy; Amit Chaudhuri; The Folio Prize.

09/02/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Harriet Walter and Guy Paul; The Casual Vacancy; Amit Chaudhuri; The Folio Prize.

Harriet Walter and Guy Paul in Boa, The Casual Vacancy, Amit Chaudhuri and the Folio Prize

Harriet Walter and Guy Paul in two-hander play Boa, JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy adapted for TV, Amit Chaudhuri on his new novel Odysseus Abroad and the Folio Prize shortlist.

Harriet Walter and Guy Paul discuss playing wife and husband on stage in a new play, Boa, and how much of their off-stage marriage is reflected in their performances; as J K Rowling's novel The Casual Vacancy is adapted for TV, Jonathan Myerson reviews it, and compares the drama with the novel; The Folio Prize was launched with the aim of 'celebrating the best fiction of our time'. Now in its second year, Cathy Rentzenbrink discusses the eight books on the shortlist; and Amit Chaudhuri discusses his new novel, Odysseus Abroad. A re-working of the story of Odysseus and Telemachus, it explores the relationship between Ananda, a young man studying literature in 1980s London, and his eccentric uncle Radhesh.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.

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