Episode Info
Tim Marlow is joined by John Mullan, AL Kennedy and Rosie Boycott to review the contenders for this year's Booker Prize, which will be announced on Tuesday night. Hilary Mantel, the winner in 2009, is once again in contention with her latest work Bring Up the Bodies, but faces stiff competition from books by Will Self, Tan Twan Eng and Deborah Levy, as well as first-time novelists Jeet Thayil and Alison Moore.