Bookmark: Booker Prize 2013 Winner & New Fiction Reviews

Umapagan Ampikaipakan

29-Oct-13 14:00

Bookmark: Booker Prize 2013 Winner & New Fiction Reviews

Literary reviewer Umapagan Ampikaipakan weighs in on this year’s Man Booker Prize winner, Eleanor Catton, the youngest writer to win the prize, with the longest novel to triumph in the award too.

He also reviews two works, The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz and The Krauss Project by Jonathan Franzen.

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(REPEAT) Jan Wong, Founder, Open Minds, on Malaysia’s Martech Digital Edge.

12:00 PM

Popcorn Culture

(REPEAT) We review One Battle After Another, Leonardo DiCaprio’s first collaboration with acclaimed director, Paul Thomas Anderson - and discuss your favourite of Leo's performances.

1:00 PM

Cruise Control

(REPEAT) We talk about the price war that's affecting the industry and the manufacturers that are selling their cars at discounted prices.

2:00 PM

Matt-Splained

(REPEAT) Matt and Rich debate how quickly AI has reached the threshold of deniability: the reality remix.

3:00 PM

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(REPEAT) A recent tiger poaching case in Johor highlights the urgent threats facing Malaysia’s national icon. We speak with Rimau founder Lara Ariffin about her organisation’s fight to protect the last Malayan tigers.

4:00 PM

Bar None

(REPEAT) We speak to a sport climbing coach and a skateboarder to learn how they train as athletes.

5:00 PM

BBC World Service

This episode of The Conversation features two filmmakers that are working on football-related movies.

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