Bernardine Evaristo: A BBC Radio Collection Audiobook by Bernardine Evaristo

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Title: Bernardine Evaristo: A BBC Radio Collection
Subtitle: Including original writing for radio, plus full-cast adaptations of The Emperor’s Babe and Hello Mum
Categories: Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, Fiction
Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrator: Sara Powell, Lexi Strauss, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Jude Akuwudike, June Broughton, Tassia Messimeris, Adjoa Andoh, Rick Warden, Bernardine Evaristo, Petra Letan, Paul Chahidi, Michelle Asante
Publisher: BBC Audio
Release date: 09-11-2025
Language: English

Summary:
Full-cast dramatisations and original plays and stories from the award-winning author.

Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her novel, Girl, Woman, Other and the one-off Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award in 2025. The author of ten books, her 2013 novel Mr Loverman was adapted into a BBC 1 drama series in 2024, winning two BAFTAS. She has received over 90 awards and honours and is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London. Featured here are some of her most innovative works, as well as an illuminating documentary about her life and career.

The Emperor’s Babe – Set in AD 211, this drama adaptation of Evaristo’s 2001 verse novel, follows Zuleika, of Nubian heritage, who grows up wild and adventurous in Roman London and has a dangerous affair with the Roman emperor, Septimius Severus.

Hello Mum – Fourteen-year-old Jerome grows up on a rough housing estate and makes a mistake that has disastrous consequences. Now he needs his mother to understand why - and what the world looks like through his eyes.

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