The Man Booker Prize 2016 longlist podcast

The Man Booker Prize podcast series is back and in our first episode with a musical twist we delve into the newly announced 2016 longlist.Host Joe Haddow speaks to two of this year's judges Amanda Foreman (chair) and Abdulrazak Gurnah who take us through each book on the longlist and explain how whittling down 155 submissions has transformed them into very fast, efficient readers!Then Joe talks to 2000 Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams who discusses her Sylvia Plath inspired album Hypoxia.Last but certainly not least we head to Daunt Books in Marylebone where The Bookshop Band with a vast Man Booker repertoire give us a special performance.Join in the conversation @ManBookerPrize with #ManBooker2016 and #FinestFiction Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.