Southbank Centre's Book Podcast: Backstage at Man Booker 50
The second episode of our literary podcast comes from our celebration the 50th anniversary of the Booker Prize
Our Head of Literature and Spoken Word, Ted Hodgkinson speaks backstage with Robert McCrum and Kamila Shamsie, judges of the Golden Booker, which was awarded to one of the 50 past Booker winners.
We also hear extracts from some of the festival highlights, including novelists Alan Hollinghurst and Marlon James discussing how fiction can capture lives on the margins of history, and the moment the winner of the Golden Booker Prize was announced.
‘There were some that felt as though they don’t speak to the moment we’re in anymore, and there were others which, even though they were written ages ago, seem somehow more vital now than they were then’
Kamila Shamsie, on past Booker Prize-winning novels
Southbank Centre's Book Podcast: literature and the refugee crisis
Ted Hodgkinson talks with poet Nick Makola about fleeing Uganda, and Khaled Hosseini explains how the refugee crisis inspired his novel Sea Prayer.
Southbank Centre’s Book Podcast: Anna Burns - Milkman
Anna Burns speaks to our Head of Literature and Spoken Word, Ted Hodgkinson, about her 2018 Booker Prize-winning novel, Milkman.
Southbank Centre’s Book Podcast: Matt Haig and Jordan Stephens on mental health and creativity
Author Matt Haig and musician Jordan Stephens discuss mental health and creativity in this podcast hosted by Ted Hodgkinson.
Southbank Centre’s Book Podcast: Roxane Gay and women on the page
Listen to excerpts from Roxane Gay’s conversation with Liv Little, and hear from Amaal Said and Destiny Adeyemi of Octavia Poetry Collective.
Artist on artist: Raymond Antrobus on the irreplaceable Benjamin Zephaniah
The multi-award-winning poet shares his personal lifelong connection with the hugely popular figure once dubbed ‘the people’s laureate’.
Roger McGough: ‘poetry was never something I set out to do, it just happened’
The much treasured poet discusses music, muses and the impact of The Mersey Sound in this in-depth interview.
Artist on artist: Leïla Slimani on the ‘influential’ Pedro Almodóvar
The internationally bestselling author shares her fandom for the film director she loves so much she ‘would worship even just a sock of his’.