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From author interviews to actor readings, from full-length ceremonies to mini documentaries, from memorable speeches to classic moments from Booker history, you’ll find the best of our videos here
Booker Prize 2025 shortlist films
Gabrielle Creevy reads from Flashlight by Susan Choi | The Booker Prize
Shazad Latif reads from The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai | The Booker Prize
Katherine Parkinson reads from Audition by Katie Kitamura | The Booker Prize
Rory Kinnear reads from The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits | The Booker Prize
Arlo Parks reads from The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller | The Booker Prize
Stormzy reads from Flesh by David Szalay | The Booker Prize
International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist films
Lucy Boynton reads from ‘On the Calculation of Volume I’ | The Booker Prize
Omari Douglas reads from ‘Small Boat’ | The Booker Prize
Rosalind Eleazar reads from ‘Under the Eye of the Big Bird’ | The Booker Prize
Watch Jamie Demetriou read from ‘Perfection’ | The Booker Prize
Watch Ambika Mod read from ‘Heart Lamp’ | The Booker Prize
Peter Serafinowicz reads from ‘A Leopard-Skin Hat’ | The Booker Prize
Booker Prize 2024 shortlist films
Nonso Anozie reads from ‘James’ | The Booker Prize
Will Poulter reads from ‘Orbital’ | The Booker Prize
Adelayo Adedayo read from ‘Creation Lake’ | The Booker Prize
Jason Isaacs reads from ‘Held’ | The Booker Prize
Tanya Reynolds reads from ‘The Safekeep’ | The Booker Prize
Chipo Chung reads from ‘Stone Yard Devotional’ | The Booker Prize
International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist films
Tobias Menzies reads from 'Mater 2-10' | The Booker Prize
Dua Lipa reads from 'The Details' | The Booker Prize
Eleanor Tomlinson reads from 'Kairos' | The Booker Prize
Anya Chalotra reads from 'What I’d Rather Not Think About' | The Booker Prize
David Jonsson reads from 'Not a River' | The Booker Prize
Antonia Thomas reads from 'Crooked Plow' | The Booker Prize
Booker Prize 2023 shortlist films
Susan Lynch reads from ‘The Bee Sting’ | The Booker Prize
Caitríona Balfe reads from ‘Prophet Song’ | The Booker Prize
Nina Wadia reads from ‘Western Lane’ | The Booker Prize
Alfred Enoch reads from ‘If I Survive You’ | The Booker Prize
Paterson Joseph reads from ‘This Other Eden’ | The Booker Prize
Bel Powley reads from ‘Study for Obedience’ | The Booker Prize
Original videos
Women writers at the National Portrait Gallery with Katy Hessel | The Booker Prize
How to win the Booker Prize | The Booker Prize
Esi Edugyan on judging the Booker Prize 2023 | The Booker Prize
Dua Lipa joins Books Unlocked at a prison reading group | The Booker Prize
Penelope Lively on her Booker-winning novel 'Moon Tiger' | The Booker Prize
Leïla Slimani on judging the International Booker Prize 2023 | The Booker Prize
Ben Okri on writing his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road | The Booker Prize
Seeing G: John Berger, the Black Panthers and the Booker Prize, 50 years on | The Booker Prize
Sarah Waters Video Interview
Dastardly plots, the Victorian underworld and the British Library porn desk. Sarah Waters gives an exclusive insight into ‘the untidiness that goes into writing a novel’.
Production credits: With thanks to Sarah Waters; interviewed by Jo Hamya; directed and edited by Benjamin Sutton, director of photography Kia Little; sound recordist Micheal Ademilua; production manager Laura Shaw; producer Jon Davenport.
Tsitsi Dangarembga on her Novel 'This Mournable Body' | The Booker Prize
An interview with Thomas Keneally | The Booker Prize
Camilla, Duchess of Wales Interviews Booker Prize Winner Douglas Stuart | The Booker Prize
What is it really like to be a Booker Prize judge? | The Booker Prize
Daisy Rockwell on translating ‘Tomb of Sand’
International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist films
Toby Stephens reads from ‘Time Shelter’ | The Booker Prize
Aisling Bea reads from ‘Whale’ | The Booker Prize
Osy Ikhile reads from ‘Standing Heavy’ | The Booker Prize
Michelle de Swarte reads from ‘Boulder’ | The Booker Prize
Jessica Brown Findlay reads from ‘Still Born’ | The Booker Prize
Adjoa Andoh reads from ‘The Gospel According to the New World’ | The Booker Prize
Prasanna Puwanarajah reads an extract from 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' | The Booker Prize
Anna Friel reads from 'Oh William!' by Elizabeth Strout | The Booker Prize
David Harewood reads a second extract from 'The Trees' | The Booker Prize
Sharon Horgan reads from 'Small Things Like' These by Claire Keegan | The Booker Prize
Osy Ikhile reads from ‘Standing Heavy’ | The Booker Prize
Jarvis Cocker reads from 'Treacle Walker' by Alan Garner | The Booker Prize
Nikki Amuka-Bird reads a second extract from 'Glory' | The Booker Prize
Nikki Amuka-Bird reads a second extract from ‘Glory’
'The Promise', directed by Christine Ubochi and produced by Rural Media
‘The Promise’, directed by Christine Ubochi, featuring David Jonsson and produced by Rural Media.
Stuart Campbell reads Shuggie Bain
Stuart Campbell reads Shuggie Bain.
Ken Nwosu Reads 'At Night All Blood is Black' by David Diop | The Booker Prize
'Great Circle' directed by Christine Ubochi and produced by Rural Media
'A Passage North', directed by Yero Timi-Biu and produced by Rural Media
‘A Passage North’, directed by Yero Timi-Biu, featuring Paul G Raymond and produced by Rural Media
'No One Is Talking About This', directed by Liam Young and produced by Rural Media
Fiona Button in a film of ‘No One Is Talking About This’, directed by Liam Young and produced by Rural Media in partnership with the BBC.
'The Fortune Men' directed by Yero Timi-Biu and produced by Rural Media
‘The Fortune Men’ directed by Yero Timi-Biu, featuring Elmi Rashid Elmi and produced by Rural Media
'Bewilderment', directed by Liam Young and produced by Rural Media
‘Bewilderment’, directed by Liam Young, featuring Luke Norris and produced by Rural Media
Q&As with shortlisted authors
A Q&A with Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel | The Booker Prize
A Q&A with GauZ' and Frank Wynne | The Booker Prize
A Q&A with Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey | The Booker Prize
A Q&A with Cheon Myeong-kwan and Chi-Young Kim | The Booker Prize
A Q&A with Eva Baltasar and Julia Sanches | The Booker Prize
A Q&A with Maryse Condé and Richard Philcox | The Booker Prize
Shehan Karunatilaka answers questions about 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' | The Booker Prize
Claire Keegan answers readers' questions about 'Small Things Like These' | The Booker Prize
Elizabeth Strout answers readers' questions about 'Oh William!' | The Booker Prize
Alan Garner answers readers' questions about 'Treacle Walker' | The Booker Prize
Percival Everett answers readers' questions about 'The Trees' | The Booker Prize
NoViolet Bulawayo answers readers' questions about 'Glory' | The Booker Prize
Watch our ceremonies
The International Booker Prize 2023 Winner Announcement | The Booker Prize
The Booker Prize 2022 Ceremony Highlights | The Booker Prize
The Booker Prize 2020 - Full Ceremony | The Booker Prize
Watch the 2020 Booker Prize ceremony, in which Douglas Stuart wins the prize with his book, Shuggie Bain.
Anita Brookner Wins The Booker Prize 1984 with Hotel du Lac | The Booker Prizes
Watch the moment that Anita Brookner wins The 1984 Booker Prize with her book Hotel du Lac.
Booker Prize ceremony 1991
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.
Thomas Keneally Wins The Booker Prize with Schindler's Ark (1982) | The Booker Prize
Watch the moment Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark is announced as the 1982 Booker Prize-winning book.
The Booker Prize 2002 - Full Ceremony | The Booker Prize
The Booker Prize 1997 - Full Ceremony | The Booker Prizes
The Booker Prize 2013 - Full Ceremony | The Booker Prizes
The Booker Prize 2002 - Full Ceremony | The Booker Prize
The Booker Prize 2002 full ceremony, in which Yann Martel wins the prize with his book, Life of Pi
The Booker Prize 1992 - Full Ceremony | The Booker Prizes
The full ceremony from 1992, in which Michael Ondaatje wins the prize with The English Patient.
Kazuo Ishiguro Wins The 1989 Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro Wins The 1989 Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day
Booker Prize 1985 full ceremony
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.
Classic moments
Muriel Spark on poetry, autobiography and eternal life | The Booker Prize
Bernice Rubens on winning the Booker Prize – and the pleasure of writing | The Booker Prize
Hilary Mantel on Beyond Black and the spirit world | The Booker Prize
Doris Lessing on The Good Terrorist, Politics and Protest | The Booker Prize
Authors Who Won The Booker Prize with Debut Novels | The Booker Prize
Ben Okri wins the 1991 Booker Prize
Chair of the 1991 judging panel Jeremy Treglown welcomes Ben Okri to the stage to collect the Booker Prize for The Famished Road.
Celebrating Hilary Mantel | The Booker Prize
Authors Who Won The Booker Prize Twice | The Booker Prize
Keri Hulme wins The Booker Prize 1985
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.