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Booker Prize is 'embarrassment of riches'

The 2016 Man Booker Prize chair has said the shortlist is "the most exciting to my mind that we've had in years".

Biographer and broadcaster Amanda Foreman told The World at One she looked for more risks from authors and publishers.

(Photo: Man Booker prize 2016 fiction shortlist. Credit: Getty Images)

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