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This week in Read On we are devoting the entire show to the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
\\n\\n\\nChair of judges Kwame Anthony Appiah will reveal this year\\u2019s shortlist and how it was arrived at.
\\n\\n\\nEsi Edugyan introduces us to the phenomenal story of Washington Black.
\\n\\n\\nRichard Powers waxes lyrical about trees.
\\n\\n\\nAnd we hear from both the youngest author ever to have been shortlisted and the oldest living person to have received The Man Booker Prize for fiction.
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