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26 October 2016

Episode 1295

30 minutes

Nato defense ministers meet today in Brussels to discuss the alliance’s strategy towards Russia. Turkey arrests the mayors of its biggest Kurdish town and we hear from Paul Beatty, the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Plus: how giant pouched rats are fighting illegal wildlife trafficking in Tanzania.

26 October 2016

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Paul Beatty

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This year’s Man Booker Prize has been awarded to Paul Beatty, making him the first US author to win the prize in its 47-year history. His novel, the racial satire ‘The Sellout’, tells the story of a young black man who tries to reinstate slavery and racial segregation in a suburb of Los Angeles. We hear from the book’s publisher and extracts from Beatty’s upcoming interview on ‘Meet the Writers’.

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