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Front Row: William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Rillington Place, Johnny Cash

William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Rillington Place, Johnny Cash

24/11/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Rillington Place, Johnny Cash

William Finnegan, winner of Sports Book of the Year, and poet Paul Muldoon on Johnny Cash.

William Finnegan, the winner of Sports Book of the Year, and his fellow shortlisted writers, poet Paul Muldoon on Johnny Cash, and Natasha Cooper on Rillington Place.

It was announced today that William Finnegan has won the 2016 William Hill Sports Book of the Year for his book Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. John Wilson reports from the ceremony and speaks to each of the authors of the seven shortlisted books, including Diana Nyad, who, aged 64, became the first person to swim the 100-mile stretch of shark-infested ocean between Cuba and Florida. 

Rillington Place, a street in West London, became notorious as the home of John Christie, the serial killer who framed another man, Timothy Evans, for one of his murders. Evans was hanged in 1950 and it would be another three years before Christie was convicted. The story is the subject of a new three-part BBC drama starring Tim Roth and Samantha Morton. Crime writer Natasha Cooper reviews. 

Johnny Cash Forever Words is a collection of previously unpublished and unseen poems by the singer songwriter. They were discovered by his son, John Carter Cash, who asked the poet Paul Muldoon to select 41 poems from 200. Muldoon discusses Cash's strengths as a poet and what distinguishes poems from lyrics.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Rachel Simpson.

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