Arifa Akbar and Ruth Scurr on the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist

Arifa Akbar and Ruth Scurr, two 2023 judges for the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize, discuss the selections of the 2023 longlist on the podcast Read Smart (September 8, 2023). The discussion of Tiya’s book, All That She Carried, described by the judges as a “brilliant” and “life-affirming” book that “absolutely had to be on our list,” begins at the 26:49 minute mark.