Episode description
Author Percival Everett talks to Tom Sutcliffe about his Booker Prize nominated novel, The Trees, which uses dark humour to explore gruesome events in Mississippi.
Science Fiction writer Una McCormack and historian Prof Anthony Bale review Stephen Frears's new film The Lost King, about the real life search for the remains of Richard III and a new exhibition at the Science Museum devoted to Science Fiction.
And writer Hari Kunzru on the life and work of Annie Ernaux, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Emma Wallace
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