The Man Booker Prize 2016
It's that time of year again, when readers turn to the Man Booker Prize shortlist for a view on the very best of fiction in the English-speaking world.
For this episode of Artsnight, David Baddiel, author, comedian and former Booker Prize judge, introduces the six novels chosen by 2016's judges. Reviewers including Mariella Frostrup, Val McDermid and George the Poet meet the authors and slip between the pages of the 2016 Man Booker Prize shortlist.
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