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Front Row: Aisling Bea, Booker Prize Double, Zawe Ashton

15/10/2019

Aisling Bea, Booker Prize Double, Zawe Ashton

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Aisling Bea, Booker Prize Double, Zawe Ashton

Aisling Bea on her new drama Living with Yourself. Plus Zawe Ashton on her new play.

Aisling Bea on her new Netflix drama Living with Yourself. Zawe Ashton on her new play. And why has this year's Booker Prize been awarded to two authors?

Aisling Bea, writer and star of the recent hit Channel 4 comedy This Way Up, on her new Netflix drama Living with Yourself, in which she plays the wife of a man who undergoes a mysterious treatment only to discover that he has been cloned and replaced by a better version of himself.

With the surprise announcement last night that the Booker Prize was being awarded to two authors – Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo – chair of the judges Peter Florence and the prize’s literary director Gaby Wood reveal what went on behind the scenes and how and why the judges came to their rule-breaking decision. 

And Kirsty talks to Zawe Ashton, who is currently starring on Broadway alongside Tom Hiddleston in Harold Pinter's play, Betrayal. She's also written a play which is opening on both sides of the Atlantic at once, for all the women who thought they were Mad. 

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Timothy Prosser

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