Before the Bookers | 1847
Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Clive Anderson and guests John Sutherland, Brenda Maddox, James Naughtie and Claire Tomalin discuss which book (Vanity Fair, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre or Dombey and Son) might have won the Booker Prize had it existed in 1847.
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