Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist, The Shires, Poet Sean O'Brien
The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, country band The Shires play live in studio plus a look at poet Sean O'Brien's new collection, Europa.
The shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 has been announced today, critics Alex Clark and Toby Lichtig comment on the six novels that made it through from the longlist of 16.
Country band The Shires perform live and discuss their new album, Accidentally on Purpose, working with Ed Sheeran and why country music is having a resurgence in popularity in the UK.
Sean O'Brien is a man of letters, writing essays, plays and novels; as well as his celebrated poetry. He talks about and reads from Europa, his latest collection - and his ninth. The tenet is that Europe is not a place we can choose to leave and the poems explore how our culture, language, history and identity are inextricably entwined with mainland Europe.
Presenter : Samira Ahmed
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.
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Women's Prize for Fiction
Duration: 09:16
The Shires
Duration: 08:33
Sean O'Brien
Duration: 08:31
The Shires
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The Shires' new album, Accidentally on Purpose, is out now.
Their UK tours starts rom Guildford on聽12 May 2018, and ends in Manchester on 06 June 2018, calling at聽 Bournemouth, Cardiff, Bristol, London, Folkestone, Sheffield, Ipswich, Cambridge, Oxford, Perth, Glasgow, Gateshead, Carlisle, York, Birmingham, Stoke, Liverpool and Llandudno in between.
Images: Main image above and image to the left : The Shires (Crissie Rhodes and Ben Earle)
The Women's Prize for Fiction
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The books shortlisted or the Women's Prize or Fiction 2018 are:
Elif Batuman, The Idiot
Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Jessie Greengrass, Sight
Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, SingThe Prize is awarded on 06 June 2018.
Image: The books shortlisted or the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction
Sean O'Brien
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collection of poetry, Europa, is out now.
Image: Sean O'Brien
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Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Alex Clark Interviewed Guest Toby Lichtig Interviewed Guest The Shires Interviewed Guest Sean O'Brien Performer The Shires Performer Sean O'Brien Producer Dymphna Flynn Broadcast
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