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Front Row: Loudon Wainwright III performs live, the Booker Prize shortlist, studying English Literature

Loudon Wainwright III performs live; The Booker Prize shortlist; Studying English Literature

Loudon Wainwright III performs live, the Booker Prize shortlist, studying English Literature

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Loudon Wainwright III performs live, the Booker Prize shortlist, studying English Literature

Loudon Wainwright III performs live in the studio from his album Lifetime Achievement.

Loudon Wainwright III performs live from his latest album, literary critic Max Liu on the Booker Prize shortlist, studying English Literature.

American singer songwriter Loudon Wainwright III performs live in the studio and talks about his decades-long career, his current UK tour and his latest album titled Lifetime Achievement.

Tonight the six books on this year’s Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist will be announced.  The literary critic Max Liu joins us to comment. One of these six shortlisted authors will be chosen as the overall winner on 17 October when the ceremony will be broadcast live on Front Row.

English Literature has dropped out of the top ten A-level subjects in England for the first time. What does it reveal about the status of the subject and its importance in the creative industries? Samira hears from Vicky Bolton, head of English at Wales High school in Sheffield; Sam Cairns, co-director of The Cultural Learning Alliance; and Geoff Barton, a former English teacher and head teacher, now the general secretary of the teaching union, the Association of School and College Leaders. 

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Paul Waters

Image: Loudon Wainwright III
Photographer credit: Shervin Lainez

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