BOOKER PRIZE: JUDGING:

BOOKER PRIZE: JUDGING:.||**** FOR RUSHES SEE FOOT OF FILE|| ITN| ENGLAND: London: Savile Club:| Seq Booker judges seated round table in discussion (Prof| Gillian Beer, Martin Goff, Jason Cowley, Prof Dan| Jacobson, Lady Rachel Billington, Jan Dalley)|| Professor Gillian Beer (Chair, Booker Judges) intvw| - Promised there would be less to read but didn't turn| out that way/ had 106 novels this time|| Jason Cowley (Booker Judge) intvw| - Were many appalling entries this year|| TCMS Shortlisted books on table|| STILLS/ Covers of shortlist - 'The God of Small Things'| GRAPHIC by Arundhati Roy, 'The Underground Man' by Mick| Jackson, 'Quarantine' by Jim Crace, 'Europe' by| Tim Parks, 'The Essence of the thing' by Madeleine| St John, 'Grace Notes' by Bernard MacLaverty|| Ext: GV The Savile Club:| LA Ditto ZOOM IN to upper window (2 shots = 13secs)|| Int: Jason Cowley (Booker judge) intvw| - Carey won prize before, not one of his best books/| McEwan has written better books than this|| Professor Gillian Beer (Chair, Booker Judges) intvw| - Winston has written immensely interesting book, would| have liked it to be on there (shortlist)/ (was outargued)|| BV Beer into 'Elgar Room' as door closes behind her|| TX 15.9.97/C4N||RUSHES ----------------------------------------------------------------------|*R15099715 BOOKER PRIZE: JUDGING:|15.9.97||| FOR ARCHIVE REF QUOTE B NUMBERS:| -------------------------------------------------------------|| INT ITN CASSETTE 1 B0249572 T/C AS ORIGINAL|ENGLAND 00.20 GV's Booker judges seated round table in...