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Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her novel, Girl, Woman, Other. The author of ten books and numerous essays, literary criticism, poetry and drama, her 2013 novel Mr Loverman was adapted into an eight-part BBC 1 TV drama series in 2024. She has received over 80 awards, honours and nominations and was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature 2022-2025. Featured here are some of her most innovative works, as well as an illuminating documentary about her life and career.

As a boy, severely disabled after contracting polio as a baby in working class Liverpool, Bert Massie found himself wondering why disabled people were expected to adapt to the world around them, and not the other way round. In his teens, he began to campaign for rights for disabled people, and having battled his way through prejudice and the education system to become a Bachelor of Arts and a qualified social worker, he became a prominent figure in the fight for fair treatment for disabled people leading to the ground breaking Disability Discrimination Act.