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Hello, let me take you back to a simpler time when physical books was an unnecessary

qualification. The Man Booker Prize wasn't transatlantic and a plucky new program called

Open Book, presented by Humphrey Carpenter, stormed the airwaves,

with the first edition featuring Ray Bradbury and Rachel Cusk, kicking off the commitment to a varied literary diet that we've stuck to for two decades.

Speaking of variety, in 1998, you might have been reading Nick Hornby's About a Boy, Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible, or the first outing of Alexander McCall-Smith's Lady Detective.

And a boy wizard, called Harry Potter, was just beginning to sprinkle magic over the world of children's books, while YA was still a twinkle in a commercially minded publisher's eye.

Trends, technology and terminology may have changed, but the popularity of settling down with a good

book has thankfully endured, and we're proud that for 20 years, Open Book has been Radio

4's home for the best love voices, news and views from the storytelling world.

So in this special edition from the BBC Radio Theatre, we've stepped out of our dingy studio and into a room brim full of listeners and a sprinkle of publishing supremers along with a panel of our favourite authors. We'll be looking back at how

reading and writing have changed over the last two decades and forward to what we might be reading

in 20 years' time. So without further ado, let me introduce our guests. Sebastian Fokes, best-selling

author of Birdsong, whose latest novel is Paris Echo.

Lisa McInerney, who won the 2016 Women's Prize for Fiction with her debut novel, The Glorious

Heresies.

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