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Free Thinking: The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

The Booker Prize, Mike Bartlett, Small is Beautiful

17/10/2017

The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?

Alex Clark talks to Philip Dodd from The Booker Prize ceremony at London's Guildhall.

Alex Clark talks to Philip Dodd from the Man Booker Prize ceremony at London's Guildhall. Plus Mike Bartlett on moving from TV's Dr Foster to a play depicting a future UK.

Dr Foster writer Mike Bartlett on his new play Albion. Alex Clark reports from the Man Booker prize ceremony. And former SNP MP George Kerevan, David Goodhart and Marián Arribas-Tomé from UEA discuss whether the 21st century is set to be a century of small nations. 

The Man Booker Prize shortlist 2017 is :
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster 
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund 
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 
Elmet by Fiona Mozley 
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 
Autumn by Ali Smith 

Mike Bartlett's play Albion runs at the Almeida Theatre in London from October 10th to November 24th. 
David Goodhart is Head of Demography, Immigration & Integration at Policy Exchange and author of The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics

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