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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: 2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts
Description: Anne McElvoy talks prehistory with archaeologist Mike Pitts and artist Renee So plus critic Alex Clark gives her take on this year's Booker Prize winners - Bernadine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood, and director Tinuke Craig discusses putting Gorky on stage in a new version written by Mike Bartlett.Ancient and Modern by Renee So is at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill until 12th January
Digging up Britain: Ten discoveries, a million years of history by Mike Pitts is available now
Vassa by Gorky in a new version by Mike Bartlett runs at the Almeida Theatre in...