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Front Row: The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022

The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022

Samira Ahmed hosts the ceremony live from the Roundhouse in London.

The 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction ceremony live from the Roundhouse in London, hosted by Samira Ahmed.

The live ceremony for the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction, hosted by Samira Ahmed.  The winner of the £50,000 prize will be announced by the chair of judges Neil MacGregor in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen Consort, who will award the trophy.  The author Elif Shafak reflects on the recent violent attack on Sir Salman Rushdie, whose novel Midnight's Children was chosen as the Booker of Bookers.  And the singer songwriter Dua Lipa gives her thoughts on the power of books.

Photographer credit:  John Williams

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Sarah Johnson

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