Possibility and Permission

This week, Toby Lichtig and Lucy Dallas talk to the new winner of the Booker prize, M. John Harrison, about his novel The End of Everything and his life in books. They discuss literary criticism, alien invasion, the tyranny of genre and being given "permission" to write at the age of eighty-one. Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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