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Ian McEwan with Katy Brand

Ian McEwan with Katy Brand

FromThe Penguin Podcast


Ian McEwan with Katy Brand

FromThe Penguin Podcast

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Apr 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Booker prize-winning author Ian McEwan visits the Penguin studio to talk about his new novel ‘Machines Like Me’ - set in an alternatives 1980’s in which synthetic humans are on sale. Ian and Katy talk about the ethics of AI, why drinking wine on the top of a mountain is good for your health and how being an A list Hollywood screenwriter can be ‘the ruin of many an English novelist’. Ian’s objects of inspiration include steel drinking cups and a drawing of a squirrel’s skull. #PenguinPodcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Apr 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Conversations with some our of leading authors and creative thinkers, as we seek to understand how they write and where their ideas come from. Guests bring to the interview a handful of objects that have inspired their work. #PenguinPodcast