Man Booker Prize 2014 - Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson’s novel ‘J’, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has been compared to some of the all-time great works of dystopian fiction: George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ and Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’. Newsnight’s Stephen Smith meets the author to find out what a nightmarish vision of the future looks like in 2014.