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Radio 4,04 Jan 2021,28 mins

Dante's Divine Comedy 700 years on with Katya Adler; Costa Book Awards category winners

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Suzannah Lipscomb, Chair of Judges for the Costa Book Awards 2020, joins us to reveal exclusively the winners in each of category: Novel, Children’s, Poetry, Biography and Debut Novel. This is followed by an interview with the winner of the Best Novel category. Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy 7 centuries ago but - like all great literature – it still speaks to us in today’s world. Katya Adler, the BBC's Europe Editor and lover of all things Italian is a fan of the epic poem and has made a 3 part series for Radio 4. She discusses what she's set out ot explore and who she's done that with. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Hilary Dunn SM: Donald MacDonald

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