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Boycott chairs Samuel Johnson judges

Writer and broadcaster Rosie Boycott will chair the judges for the 2008 BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. The rest of the judging panel will be Guardian literary editor Claire Armitstead, poet Daljit Nagra, Science Museum director Chris Rapley and film-maker Hannah Rothschild.

The winner of the £30,000 award will be announced at the London prize dinner July.