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Paul Beatty

HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur talks to the author Paul Beatty, whose Booker prize winning novel Sellout deploys biting satire to unpick the black American experience.

HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur talks to the author Paul Beatty, whose Booker prize winning novel Sellout deploys biting satire to unpick the black American experience. After eight years of a black president, amid a swirl of demographic and social change, black Americans still feel the bite of discrimination and prejudice. How best to respond?

30 minutes

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Tue 17 Jan 201720:30GMT
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Credits

PresenterStephen Sackur
Interviewed GuestPaul Beatty

Broadcasts

  • Thu 15 Dec 201604:30GMT
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  • Thu 15 Dec 201609:30GMT
    BBC News except UK & UK HD
  • Thu 15 Dec 201615:30GMT
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  • Thu 15 Dec 201620:30GMT
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  • Fri 16 Dec 201604:30GMT
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  • Fri 16 Dec 201609:30GMT
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  • Sat 17 Dec 201607:30GMT
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  • Tue 17 Jan 201704:30GMT
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  • Tue 17 Jan 201709:30GMT
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  • Tue 17 Jan 201715:30GMT
    BBC News except UK & UK HD
  • Tue 17 Jan 201720:30GMT
    BBC News except UK & UK HD