Cheltenham Literature Festival Man Booker events

Cheltenham Festival

The festival runs between 10-19 October 2008 – A ten day celebration of the written word

8 August 2008


2 - 3pm Friday 10 October 2008

Celebrating 40 years of the The Man Booker Prize, John Banville, author of winning novel The Sea and Graham Swift, author of winning novel Last Orders, join BBC Radio 4 Executive Producer Sara Davies to read some brand-new writing, which will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 3.30pm between 13 - 17 October.

6 - 7.15pm, Saturday 11 October 2008

Celebrating 40 years of The Man Booker Prize, Penelope Lively, author of winning novel Moon Tiger, Ben Okri, author of 1991 winner The Famished Road and D B C Pierre, author of 2003 winner Vernon God Little join BBC Radio 4 Executive Producer Sara Davies to read some brand-new writing, which will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 3.30pm between 13th-17th October.

8 - 9pm, Sunday 12 October 2008

D B C Pierre dazzling and blackly comic Vernon God Little won the 2003 Man Booker prize to huge acclaim. He joins us to talk about his writing, his award-winning debut, which has been adapted for the stage, and his second equally compelling novel Ludmila's Broken English.

8.30-10.30pm, Saturday 18 October 2008

The audience has the vote - which 1948 novel deserves to win our very own Booker? A C Grayling, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Sue Perkins and Erica Wagner join Ion Trewin to debate the merits of Greene's The Heart of the Matter, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, and The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh. Introduced by John Coldstream.

For full details of the events visit the Cheltenham Literature Festival website.

The Man Booker Prize Fiction at its finest