Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart on Shuggie Bain

On Front Row last week, Douglas Stuart was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction for Shuggie Bain, his debut novel about a boy in 1980s Glasgow who supports his mother as she struggles with addiction.

Tonight Douglas Stuart talks in-depth with John Wilson about his extraordinary journey from Glasgow to becoming a fashion designer in New York and now a best-selling novelist, after being rejected by more than 30 publishers.

Plus we announce the winner of this year’s George Devine Award – the £15,000 prize for an original stage play.

Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Timothy Prosser

main image: Douglas Stuart Image credit: Martyn Pickersgill