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Ian McEwan: what gives renowned author hope in an age of crisis?

Ian McEwan: what gives renowned author hope in an age of crisis?

Update: 2025-09-12
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Sir Ian McEwan is one of Britain’s most acclaimed novelists, a Booker prize winner with a career spanning five decades with work that often explores morality, memory, and the intersections of private lives with public events. 

Sir Ian has long been associated with contemporaries like Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, and Salman Rushdie, who together reshaped the British novel from the 1980s onward. 

In this episode of Ways to Change the World, he spoke to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the great issues facing the world from artificial intelligence to the rise of authoritarianism - as well as his latest novel What We Can Know.


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Ian McEwan: what gives renowned author hope in an age of crisis?

Ian McEwan: what gives renowned author hope in an age of crisis?

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