BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Booker Prize Book Groups
Every Monday and Thursday from 26 October 2020, 7:15pm GMT
All six of The Booker Prize shortlisted authors will feature on BBC Radio 4 Front Row’s popular Booker Prize Book Groups which give readers the chance to ask each author their own questions.
- Facebook Event: Diane Cook
- Facebook Event: Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Facebook Event: Avni Doshi
- Facebook Event: Maaza Mengiste
- Facebook Event: Douglas Stuart
- Facebook Event: Brandon Taylor
The Booker Prize Livestreams – Facebook and YouTube
Every Tuesday and Thursday from 27 October 2020, 5pm GMT
Watch exclusive author conversations and readings as well as interviews with some familiar faces who reveal which book from our 2020 shortlist they are enjoying the most.
Watch live on our Facebook and YouTube channels.
- Facebook Event: Dianne Cook
- Facebook Event: Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Facebook Event: Avni Doshi
- Facebook Event: Maaza Mengiste
- Facebook Event: Douglas Stuart
- Facebook Event: Brandon Taylor
Guardian Live - 2020 Booker Prize shortlist readings
Wednesday 11 November 2020, 7pm GMT
Join the 2020 Booker Prize shortlist for a special livestreamed event in the week leading up to the announcement of this year’s winner. The event will include readings and conversation with the shortlisted authors, hosted by writer and critic Alex Clark.
Tickets available here.
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The Booker Prizes Shortlist 'In Conversation'
Friday 13 November 2020, 7pm
The 2020 Booker Prize’s regional partner, Doncaster Creates, will bring together the six 2020 shortlisted authors with Sheffield-born poet and former Man Booker International judge, Helen Mort. Doncaster Creates is a dynamic arts programme set up to celebrate the town’s creativity and unsung narratives of ‘grit and grandeur’.
Free event.
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Instagram Live – Waterstones and The Booker Prize collaboration
Monday 16, Tuesday 17, Wednesday 18 November 2020, 7:30pm
Over three consecutive nights The Booker Prize and Waterstones and are teaming up to host Instagram Live conversations, featuring interviews with two shortlisted authors every evening.
Free event.
- Facebook Event Monday 16
- Facebook Event Tuesday 17
- Facebook Event Wednesday 18
2020 The Booker Prizes Winner Ceremony
Thursday 19 November 2020, 7:00 – 8:00pm GMT
Broadcast from London’s Roundhouse, it will a be world-class audio experience on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row (7.15-8pm) and visual experience livestreamed on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Arts Live Page (both 7-8pm), which can be accessed by listeners and viewers across the world. It will be hosted by Radio 4’s John Wilson and feature a line-up of special guests, including last year’s winners Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood, and members of the Chineke! Orchestra. For the first time, The Booker Prize and BBC are partnering with The Old Vic to bring the shortlisted books to life through a series of performances directed by The Old Vic Baylis Director Katy Rudd. The six readings, performed and filmed on The Old Vic stage by celebrated actors, will form an integral part of the ceremony.This year’s Chair of Judges Margaret Busby will announce the winner of The 2020 Booker Prize, who will hear the news live and deliver an acceptance speech on screen. The winner will give their first television interview to BBC arts editor Will Gompertz for BBC News.
Free event.
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Winner Event – Southbank Centre
Saturday 21 November 2020, 7:30pm GMT
Following the winner announcement of the 2020 Booker Prize, Southbank Centre will host the first digital event with the winner as part of its 'Inside Out' series. They will be interviewed by Bernardine Evaristo.
Tickets available here.
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Virtual Open Mic Night – Doncaster Creates
Friday 26 November 2020, Time TBC
As part of The Booker Prize’s partnership with Doncaster Creates, a virtual Open Mic night will be held, hosted by 2020 Booker judge Lemn Sissay MBE, writer and broadcaster, and Man Booker shortlisted author Fiona Mozley, who will read passages from their work alongside a host of Doncaster writers.
Ticket info TBC.
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