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Front Row: Booker-nominated author Percival Everett, The Lost King reviewed

Booker-nominated author Percival Everett, The Lost King reviewed

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Booker-nominated author Percival Everett, The Lost King reviewed

Front Row reviews The Lost King and the Science Fiction exhibition at the Science Museum.

Percival Everett talks about his novel The Trees, Hari Kunzru on Nobel Prize-winner Annie Ernaux, and Tom Sutcliffe and guests review some of the week's cultural highlights.

Author Percival Everett talks to Tom Sutcliffe about his Booker Prize nominated novel, The Trees, which uses dark humour to explore gruesome events in Mississippi. 

Science Fiction writer Una McCormack and historian Prof Anthony Bale review Stephen Frears's new film The Lost King, about the real life search for the remains of Richard III and a new exhibition at the Science Museum devoted to Science Fiction.

And writer Hari Kunzru on the life and work of Annie Ernaux, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Presenter:  Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Emma Wallace

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