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	Podcast:		Best of Today
	Episode:		Lionel Shriver's diversity controversy
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:06:30
	Publish Date:		2018-06-14 06:05:00
	Description:		"If an agent submits a manuscript written by a gay transgender Caribbean who dropped out of school at seven and powers around town on a mobility scooter it will be published - whether or not it is incoherent tedious meandering and insensible." The writer Lionel Shriver defends those comments about the publisher Penguin Random house's new diversity policy. She was speaking on the Today Programme along with the head of a short story competition run by the magazine MsLexia, which dropped Lionel Shriver as a judge because of the controversy. (Image: Lionel Shriver; credit: Getty Images)
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