David Lan on The Walk, The 2021 Booker Prize longlist, David Livingstone birthplace re-opening
Samira talks to theatre director David Lan live from Gaziantep about The Walk. We discuss the longlist for the 2021 Booker Prize. Petina Gappah on the David Livingstone Birthplace
As a 3.5 metre tall puppet called Little Amal begins an 8,000km journey from Turkey to Manchester to highlight the difficulties faced by refugee children, Samira talks to theatre director and producer David Lan live from Gaziantep on the Turkish-Syrian border about ambitious artistic project The Walk.
The longlist for the 2021 Booker Prize has been announced and we discuss the 13 chosen novels with Sameer Rahim from Prospect Magazine and Claire Armitstead from The Guardian. Are these the right titles? And who might be the eventual winner of the 拢50,000 prize?
Tomorrow the David Livingstone Birthplace re-opens following a 拢9.1m regeneration plan. The museum has not been simply refurbished, the story it tells of the famous explorer, the first European to see the Victoria Falls, has been revised. Zimbabwean novelist Petina Gappah, who spent years researching and writing about Livingstone, tells Samira Ahmed how she has given voice to those who worked with him and whom he met on his expeditions.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Julian May
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Good Chance鈥檚 , featuring Little Amal, will reach the UK on 19 Oct
Main image: Little Amal
Photo credit: Bevan Roos
Booker Prize Longlist 2021
A Passage North,聽础苍耻办听础谤耻诲辫谤补驳补蝉补尘听
Second Place,聽Rachel
Cusk
The Promise,聽顿补尘辞苍听骋补濒驳耻迟
The Sweetness of Water,聽Nathan
Harris
Klara聽and the
Sun,聽碍补锄耻辞听滨蝉丑颈驳耻谤辞听
An Island,聽Karen
Jennings聽
A Town Called
Solace,聽Mary Lawson聽
No One is Talking About
This,聽Patricia Lockwood
The Fortune Men,聽狈补诲颈蹿补听惭辞丑补尘别诲
叠别飞颈濒诲别谤尘别苍迟,听Richard
Powers
China Room,聽厂耻苍箩别别惫听厂补丑辞迟补听
Great Circle,聽惭补驳驳颈别听厂丑颈辫蝉迟别补诲听
Light Perpetual,聽贵谤补苍肠颈蝉听厂辫耻蹿蹿辞谤诲听
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