The Booker Prize 2019 and more from the Wigtown Book Festival

In today's show we listen to the Booker winning audiobooks, 'Girl, Woman Other' by Bernardine Evaristo and 'The Testaments' by Margaret Atwood (Starts at 1.07)

Salman Rushdie tells us about the joint narratives of 'Quichotte' (13.02)

We return to the Wigtown Book Festival where founder of The Big Issue, Lord Bird, reveals how learning to read saved him from a life of crime. (28.02)

 

Journalist Melanie Reid discusses coming to terms with disability and recording her memoir as a Talking Book. (37.00)

 

And Professor Steve Jones shares some fascinating facts about the vital role the sun plays in our lives. (45.42)