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Library Voices: Man Booker Prize 2008 - Part 2
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The 2008 Man booker Prize was announced on 14th of October at a ceremony in London's Guildhall. The same evening, in anticipation of the announcement, an audience gathered in Dún Laoghaire County Hall to discuss the shortlisted works and speculate on the result. This is the second and final part of the podcast of that event. Host Bert Wright and panelists Declan Hughes, Claire Kilroy and Alison Walsh continue their discussion with a look at the final three books on the shortlist: "The Clothes on Their Backs" by Linda Grant; "The Northern Clemency" by Philip Hensher; and "A Fraction of The Whole" by Steve Toltz. The podcast ends with the news from London that the prize has been won by Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger".
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