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Front Row: Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist, The Shires, Poet Sean O'Brien

Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist, The Shires, Poet Sean O'Brien

23/04/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist, The Shires, Poet Sean O'Brien

Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, The Shires play live in studio plus poet Sean O'Brien

The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, country band The Shires play live in studio plus a look at poet Sean O'Brien's new collection, Europa.

The shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 has been announced today, critics Alex Clark and Toby Lichtig comment on the six novels that made it through from the longlist of 16. 

Country band The Shires perform live and discuss their new album, Accidentally on Purpose, working with Ed Sheeran and why country music is having a resurgence in popularity in the UK.

Sean O'Brien is a man of letters, writing essays, plays and novels; as well as his celebrated poetry. He talks about and reads from Europa, his latest collection - and his ninth. The tenet is that Europe is not a place we can choose to leave and the poems explore how our culture, language, history and identity are inextricably entwined with mainland Europe. 

Presenter : Samira Ahmed
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

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