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Front Row: Shawanda Corbett, Booker longlist 2020, Claire Oakley

Booker longlist 2020, Shawanda Corbett, Claire Oakley

Shawanda Corbett, Booker longlist 2020, Claire Oakley

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Shawanda Corbett, The Booker longlist, Claire Oakley

Artist Shawanda Corbett, one of the 10 recipients of a £10,000 Tate bursary; The Booker 2020 longlist is discussed; Claire Oakley, director of the new film Make Up.

Shawanda Corbett, a ceramic artist and performer whose performances combine dance with music, prose and poetry, is the latest in our series of interviews with artists awarded a £10,000 Tate bursary in place of this year's Turner Prize. She was born with one arm and without legs and has developed a unique throwing technique in order to make pottery. Shawanda bases her vessels on people, referenced journeys out of slavery on the Underground Railroad as well as her own personal history of rehabilitation. 

Literary critics Sarah Shaffi and Toby Lichtig dissect the longlist of the 2020 Booker Prize. For the full list see below. 

Writer-director Claire Oakley discusses her acclaimed debut feature film Make Up, a coming-of-age psycho-sexual thriller set in a Cornish caravan park.

And we salute Peter Green, guitarist and founder member of Fleetwood Mac, who died on Saturday. He wrote some of the most memorable melodies and riffs of the late '60s and '70s, including the evocative instrumental, Albatross.

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