For the first time ever, Kazuo Ishiguro and Michael Ondaatje appeared in an unchaired conversation about their creative processes and their inspirations growing up and how that shaped their fiction, as part of Man Booker 50 festival at Southbank Centre.

Drawing on the wide range of influences that have informed their work, especially cinema and music, their discussion was divided into three sections – ‘Envy of the Other Arts’, ‘Boyhood Thrillers’ and ‘Notebooks’ – and each section was introduced by a slideshow of photographs selected by the pair. Here in the recording, each slideshow has been replaced with a short musical interlude.