Rana Mitter - Jhumpa Lahiri
Rana Mitter and critic Alex Clark assess the shortlist for this year's Booker prize. And talking to Jhumpa Lahiri whose novel, The Lowland, is one of the front runners.
Rana Mitter assesses the shortlist for this year's Booker prize with the critic Alex Clark and talking to Jhumpa Lahiri whose novel, The Lowland, is one of the front runners.
The historian, Joanna Bourke and the former weapons inspector, Paul Schulte will be in the studio to examine the history of chemical warfare and our ambivalence to it.
And the travel writer, Colin Thubron and the biographer, Artemis Cooper, will be on hand to celebrate the publication of the long awaited final instalment of Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of his journey from the Hook of Holland to the Bosphorus and beyond - one of the acknowledged prose masterpieces of the 20th century.
All on Night Waves this evening on Radio 3.
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Booker Prize shortlist 2013
Rana Mitter assesses the shortlist for this year's Booker prize with the critic Alex Clark
Duration: 07:03
Jhumpa Lahir
Jhumpa Lahiri speaks about her Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Lowland
Duration: 12:57
Chemical Warfare
Historian Joanna Bourke and ex weapons inspector Paul Schulte discuss chemical warfare
Duration: 11:57
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper celebrate Patrick Leigh Fermor's latest publication
Duration: 12:32
The Man Booker Shortlist 2013
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta)
The Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)
The Testament of Mary by Colm T贸ib铆n (Penguin)
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
'The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos' is out the 12th September听published by听John MurrayCredits
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