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What makes a good climate novel?

A new climate fiction prize has been launched in the UK. Graihagh Jackson talks to the Nigerian winner, Abi Daré, and the chair of judges.

A new climate fiction prize has been launched in the UK, with the aim of spreading awareness about climate change and its solutions. But is that a realistic hope? And how should novelists be writing about climate change anyway?

Graihagh Jackson talks to the Nigerian winner of the Climate Fiction Prize, Abi Daré , and the chair of judges, Madeleine Bunting.

Presenter: Graihagh Jackson
Producer: Di Richardson
Sound mix: Hannah Montgomery and Tom Brignell
Editor: Simon Watts

The Climate Fiction Prize is ed by Climate Spring.

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