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Winning the Booker Prize and discovering a lost fairytale
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. This week, the moment when Irish writer Roddy Doyle discovered he'd won one of the most prestigious honours in fictio...
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Winning the Booker Prize and discovering a lost fairytale is an episode from The History Hour by BBC. Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. This week, the moment when Irish wr...
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Published Apr 18, 2026, 60:48 long, audio available.
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