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We announce the winners of the BBC National Short Story Award 2021 and the BBC Young Writers' Award 2021. Kirsty Lang is joined for the show by National Short Story Award judges James Runcie and Fiona Mozley and Young Writers' Award judges Katie Thistleton and Louise O'Neill.

The BBC National Short Story Award is one of the most prestigious for a single short story, with the winning author receiving \xa315,000, and four further shortlisted authors \xa3600 each. This year's shortlisted stories are \u2018All the People Were Mean and Bad\u2019 by Lucy Caldwell, \u2018The Body Audit\u2019 by Rory Gleeson, \u2018Night Train\u2019 by Georgina Harding, \u2018Toadstone\u2019 by Danny Rhodes and \u2018Maykopsky District, Adyghe Oblast\u2019 by Richard Smyth.

Now in its seventh year, The BBC Young Writers\u2019 Award with Cambridge University 2021 is open to all writers between the ages of 14 \u201318 years and was created to discover and inspire the next generation of writers. It is a cross-network collaboration between BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1. The 2021 BBC Young Writers\u2019 Award shortlisted stories are \u2018Fatigued\u2019 by Luca Anderson-Muller, 18, from Belfast, \u2018Another Boring Friday Night\u2019 by Isabella Yeo Frank, 18, from London, \u2018Super-Powder by Tabitha Rubens, 19, from London, \u2018Blood and Water\u2019 by Eleanor Ware, 17, from Bedfordshire and \u2018Pomodoro (and Nasturtium Seeds) by Madeleine Whitmore, 16, from Bath.

Kirsty also speaks to Denis Villeneuve about directing the movie remake of Dune, with a screenplay by Jon Spaihts, Villeneuve, and Eric Roth. It is the first of a planned two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert,

Presenter: Kirsty Lang\nProducer: Simon Richardson