BBC Mark Lawson Talks to Kazuo Ishiguro 2015 1080p HDTV x265-MVGroup Mark Lawson talks to the Booker Prize-winning writer Kazuo Ishiguro about his life and career. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954, discusses the influence of Japan on his early novels A Pale View of Hills and An Artist's View of the Floating World, and the impact of American cowboy series and Victorian novels on his grasp of English as a child. The author reflects on the book that made his literary reputation, The Remains of the Day, which won him the UK's leading prize for fiction and was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. He talks about the importance of first-person narrators and why he is drawn to writing about the past rather than the present. Ishiguro also reflects on the influence of the pioneering Professor Malcolm Bradbury, who founded the University of East Anglia's MA course in Creative Writing, talks about his early days as a singer-songwriter and explains why his novel The Buried Giant was his first in almost ten years. Featuring readings from The Buried Giant and from some of the author's previous books. Technical Spec Video Codec: x265 CABAC Main L4 Video Bitrate: CRF 20 (~1398Kbps) Video Resolution: 1920x1080 Frame Rate: 25 FPS Audio Codec: AAC-LC (Apple) Audio Bitrate: q100 VBR 48KHz (132/222Kbps avg/peak) Audio Channels: 2 Audio Gain: 6dB Run-Time: 59 mins Part Size: 644 MB Source: HDTV (1080i/h264 2860Kbps VBR 1.42GB) SHA256: 8ed9c223ea211164826d5a78c8cecbbea69b1a224bf7e6d1a8e120803e3bd743 Subtitles: Merged