Countdown to the ceremony

Watch the 1991 Booker Prize ceremony, originally broadcast by the BBC as a Late Show special, in which Martin Amis makes his first appearance as a shortlisted writer, and Ben Okri wins for The Famished Road.

Watch the full Channel 4 broadcast of the controversial 1985 Booker Prize winning ceremony, including interviews with the shortlisted authors and the deeply divided judges.

The moment Damon Galgut wins the 2021 Booker Prize.

Douglas Stuart speaks with Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall

Thirty years after his win for The Famished Road, Ben Okri speaks with Samira Ahmed during the 2021 Booker Prize ceremony.

Maya Jasanoff speaks with Samira Ahmed before unveiling the 2021 Booker Prize winner.

Damon Galgut speaks with Samira Ahmed during the 2021 Booker Prize ceremony. 

Chair of the 1991 judging panel Jeremy Treglown welcomes Ben Okri to the stage to collect the Booker Prize for The Famished Road.

‘Despite the violence… I find it to be a book of some considerable joy.’ Author Keri Hulme shares her thoughts on her powerful and influential 1985 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Bone People, including the relationships between the main protagonists – both Māori and Pākehā (white people).

Watch the moment Keri Hulme’s The Bone People is announced as the 1985 Booker Prize winning book, and hear Hulme’s immediate reaction just after on the phone to Hermione Lee.