Twenty-one year old writer, Christopher Nolan, wins the British literary prize, The Whitbread Award for best biography.
Report shows Christopher Nolan typing with an aid attached to a headband.
Christopher Nolan with his parents.
Christopher's books: ‘Dam Burst Of Dreams’ and ‘Under The Eye Of The Clock’.
Interview with Bernadette Nolan, Christopher’s mother, on his early poetry and the inevitable connection between his quadriplegia and his writing.
Bernadette Nolan assisting Christopher at his typewriter.
A reading of an extract from his prose.
Interview with Professor John Carey who analyses Christopher Nolan's work.
Christopher Nolan with his family being presented with Whitbread Award (also in group are prizewinners Ian McEwan, novelist, and childrens' author, Geraldine McCaughrean).
The reporter is Teresa Mannion.
