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Radio 4,19 Oct 2019,14 mins

Bernardine Evaristo

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Bernardine Evaristo is the first black British woman to win the Booker Prize. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other shared the 2019 award with Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments. Mark Coles has been finding out about Evaristo's life as an activist, actor and writer. Producer: Smita Patel Researcher: May Cameron

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