The James Tait Black Prizes 2017

Recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, a discussion with this year’s winners of Britain’s oldest literary awards. Eimear McBride, winner of the fiction prize for The Lesser Bohemians, talks about her modernist novel, set in the bedsits and fraught headspaces of 1990s London. Laura Cumming, winner of the biography prize for her book, The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez, talks about her centuries-hopping tale of a lost masterpiece, the man who painted it, and the man that it destroyed.