Summer highlights: Samantha Harvey's accidental prize winner

British author Samantha Harvey (samanthaharvey.co.uk) joined Claire Nichols at the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival (mrrwfestival.com) for a revelatory conversation about dreams, insomnia and publishing a book she didn't expect to write.
Her 2024 Booker Prize winning novel, Orbital (penguin.com.au/books/orbital-9781529922936)can be described as a "space pastoral" and it's about six astronauts on the International Space Station contemplating the wonder and beauty of the earth.
First broadcast 9 June 2025.
Presenter: Claire Nichols
Producer: Sarah L'Estrange
Sound engineer: Carey Dell and David Le May
Executive producer: Rhiannon Brown