Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up

BBC1, Thursday, 10.35pm

Alan Yentob profiles the trailblazing Anglo-nigerian author, whose Booker Prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other has become a global phenomenon in recent years.

As well as featuring contributions from close family, friends, and celebrity fans such as Dawn French, Yentob also seeks to get under the skin of one of Britain’s most vital creative voices and her determinedly unorthodox life and career, ahead of the autumn release of Evaristo’s latest book: an inspirational non-fiction work called Manifesto.