In our first Man Booker podcast of 2018 listen in as the shortlist is announced live from Somerset House before Joe Haddow speaks with 2016 shortlisted translator and former judge Daniel Hahn, about his work and how he views his relationship with himself and his authors.Joe then sits down with two of this years judges Michael Hoffman and chair of the judges Lisa Appignanesi, who talk through the shortlisted books.Live from the shortlist party, we meet up with Ted Hodgkinson Senior Programmer for Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre London, to talk about the shortlist and the recently announced Man Booker 50 Festival.Lastly, judge Tim Martin talks about the process of narrowing the longlist down to six books and Karen McPherson from the Reading Agency shares her thoughts on the shortlisted books and discusses what it's like working with libraries and reading groups across the UK