HiBROW - World Book Night 2011

CREDITS

DURATION:

00:04:26

Curator:
Jamie Byng (Founder World Book Night)

Interviewer:
Kirsty Lang

Director (HiBROW):
Babak Goodarzi

Director (Trafalgar Square Event):
Anthony Arnove

Producers (HiBROW):
Joanne Jacobs
Don Boyd

Producer (Trafalgar Square Event):
Nigel Peters

Executive Producers (Trafalgar Square Event):
Fiona McMorrough
Jamie Byng

Cameras:
Tom Webster (interviews)
Tessa Morgan
Piers Thompson
Michael Tamman
Malcolm Target

Editor:
Daniel McGuire

Sound Mixers:
Charlie Weisfield
Justin Smith

Production Manager:
Dominic Dowbekin

Thanks to:
Canada House

Post Production Consultant:
Ivan Griffiths

Assistant Producers:
Jenna Bilby
Hannah Wiltshire

Runners:
Betty Sims-Hilditch
Tom Gimlette

DESCRIPTION

On March 5 2011, the organisers of World Book Night gave away one million books across Britain and Ireland. They marked this mass celebration of the power and potential of reading with a one-off event in London’s Trafalgar Square, where authors including Alan Bennett, John Le Carré, Nick Cave and Margaret Atwood all gathered to read extracts from their work to a crowd of book lovers. Alan Bennett reads from A Life Like Other People’s, his memoir of his parents’ marriage, while John Le Carré engages a hushed crowd as he reads from his 1965 breakthrough novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

HiBROW was right at the heart of this most public of literary gatherings, filming the performances and talking exclusively to many of the writers involved, from DBC Pierre and Lemn Sissay to Tracy Chevalier and Philip Pullman. In conversation with HiBROW, many of these world-beating writers considered questions and ideas close to their hearts. Together, their thoughts offer a remarkable insight into the past, present and future of literature.

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