The shortlisted stories from Jon McGregor, Sarah Hall, Aminatta Forna, Helen Oyeyemi and David Constantine, which explore themes of splintered families, the persistence of love and the plight of the outsider, will be read on BBC Radio 4 next week, with one story at 3.30pm each day.
His speech is campaign boilerplate, emphasizing themes of black self-reliance, the persistence of white racism and so on, but nowhere does he mention the Nation of Islam's anti-Semitic, anti-gay, racist ideology, let alone condemn it.
The theme of longevity or persistence of the family is one of the main topics on which to focus the theoretical and empirical contributions on the family business.
The common theme is innovation: putting familiar ingredients together in a different way, to meet a real need, propelled by imagination and that grit of persistence that turns an idea into a thriving and expanding project.
But with only 80 works, it's clearly a theme show, not a survey, the theme being the persistence of painting throughout Schwitters's career.
Still, great reserves of persistence are required.
Call it the allure of persistence.
"He's a great example of persistence.
VOLCKER: The Triumph of Persistence, by William L. Silber.
Torre came with tales of accountability, of persistence, of stretching.
