{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6b2fc9ba-b9b7-4b7a-b980-e0024facd926/673768d7d3a0091de2c39f48?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Booker prize winner Samantha Harvey: \"political choices are sculpting the surface of the earth\"","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9f75c1a8cbe0c083cee79/1731684854565-8ab1302b-8645-4f67-bcea-3c161636ee01.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The author of <em>Orbital</em> says Elon Musk's \"individualistic\" future is \"problematic in all sorts of ways\".</p><p><br></p><p>Samantha Harvey, winner of the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction speaks to Nicholas Harris in this episode of Culture from the New Statesman.</p><p><br></p><p>She discusses how her novel portrays the politics and powers of the world from orbit, and why the de-orbiting of the ISS marks the end of an era of \"peaceful co-operation between nations\".</p><p><br></p><p>📚 READ </p><p>Nicholas Harris's write up of this conversation</p><p>https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2024/11/samantha-harvey-booker-prize-2024-winner-interview-orbital</p><p><br></p><p>🙋‍♀️ ASK</p><p>We answer listener questions every Friday. Submit yours at www.newstatesman.com/youaskus</p><p><br></p><p>📧 FREE</p><p>Get our daily politics email</p><p>https://morningcall.substack.com</p><p><br></p><p>💷 SAVE </p><p>Give a loved one a year's subscription to the New Statesman for just £49 https://www.newstatesman.com/pod24</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"The New Statesman"}