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World Service,15 Nov 2025,49 mins

Booker Prize for Fiction 2025 Special: Who has won?

The Arts Hour

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In a special edition of The Arts Hour, Nikki Bedi talks to two of the judges on this year's Booker Prize for Fiction, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and Chris Power, before Roddy Doyle announces the winner. We hear from fellow judges Sarah Jessica Parker and all of the writers on the shortlist: Flashlight by Susan Choi The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai Audition by Katie Kitamura The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller Flesh by David Szalay Producer: Ciaran Bermingham Photo Credit: David Parry for the Booker Prize Foundation

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