Podcast Episodes featuring Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan: Illuminating the Human Condition

What It Takes® - November 18, 2019 13:31 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 913 ratings
He is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time... a novelist who addresses broad societal themes while plumbing the depths of intimate human relationships. Ian McEwan, the author of "Atonement," "Amsterdam" and recently, "Machines Like Me," talks here about beautifully constructed sen...

Satire, Boris and Brexit with Ian McEwan and Razia Iqbal

Intelligence Squared - October 01, 2019 02:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
In this week’s episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by the acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan. He was interviewed by the BBC’s Razia Iqbal to discuss his new satirical novella The Cockroach, in which a man wakes up one morning having been transformed into a giant creature who hap...

Ian McEwan

TALKING POLITICS - September 29, 2019 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 619 ratings
David talks to novelist Ian McEwan about his new Brexit parable, The Cockroach, and a lot else besides: counterfactual history, Labour party conferences, eighteenth-century satire, humanising judges and turning the economy on its head. But yes, it's all about the Brexit nightmare. Further Learn...

359. Ian McEwan, author of Machines Like Me

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast - May 03, 2019 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 875 ratings
Science fiction author David Barr Kirtley (Save Me Plz and Other Stories) talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman (#253), George R. R. Martin (#22), Richard Dawkins (#46), Simon Pegg (#39), Bill Nye (#273), Margaret Atwood (#94), Neil deGrasse Tyson (#32), and Ursula K. Le Guin (#65)....

Amanpour: Simon Coveney, Anita Malik and Ian McEwan

Amanpour - April 19, 2019 16:31 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
Simon Coveney, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour in Dublin, Ireland to discuss Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement. Our Michel Martin talks to Anita Malik, the Democratic House Candidate, about her experiences running for Congress in 2018 and why she's running again in 2...

Steven Pinker on Good Writing, with Ian McEwan

Intelligence Squared - February 10, 2017 00:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Steven Pinker is one of the world’s leading authorities on language, mind and human nature. A professor of psychology at Harvard, he is the bestselling author of eight books and regularly appears in lists of the world’s top 100 thinkers. In 2014 he returned to the Intelligence Squared stage to di...

65. Ian McEwan (Novelist) - A King of Infinite Space

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - September 24, 2016 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratings
Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.  This week's guest is novelist Ia...

Steven Pinker on Good Writing with Ian McEwan

Intelligence Squared - September 30, 2014 19:35 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Steven Pinker is one of the world’s leading authorities on language, mind and human nature. A professor of psychology at Harvard, he is the bestselling author of eight books and regularly appears in lists of the world’s top 100 thinkers. In 2014 he returned to the Intelligence Squared stage to di...

871: A 2010 Interview with Ian McEwan

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - April 19, 2010 02:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"This has been the most intensely-plotted novel I've ever written."

Ian McEwan

Bookclub - October 01, 2000 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 208 ratings
The author Ian McEwan discusses his novel Enduring Love with a group of his readers and presenter James Naughtie. He reads an extract from the book and talks about how the novel was a voyage of exploration for him as well as his characters.