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British author Samantha Harvey joined Claire Nichols at the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival for a revelatory conversation about dreams, insomnia and publishing a book she didn't expect to write.
Her 2024 Booker Prize winning novel, Orbital 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
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British author Samantha Harvey joined Claire Nichols at the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival for a revelatory conversation about dreams, insomnia and publishing a book she didn't expect to write.
Her 2024 Booker Prize winning novel, Orbital 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

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