Night Waves25 March 2005
Friday 25 March 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
The novelist Ian McEwan, author of Enduring Love and Atonement, has been hailed as 'this country's unrivalled literary giant'. His tenth novel, Saturday, has recently been published. In this interview, he talks to Paul Allen about a career that began when he shattered the taboos of genteel literary Britain in the 1970s, and continues to go from strength to strength - his last two novels Amsterdam and Atonement won the Booker Prize and the People's Booker respectively. Duration: 45 minutes |
 Programme Details On Night Waves, another opportunity to hear the novelist Ian McEwan in a special extended conversation with Paul Allen about his life and work, first broadcast last month on the publication of McEwan's new novel, Saturday.
McEwan, whose books include The Child in Time, Enduring Love and Atonement, discusses how he began writing, the grandeur he finds in science, how September 11th and the Iraq War affected his new novel, and how his research for the book led him to witness a living brain.
Night Waves, at 9.30pm on BBC Radio 3
Presenter: Paul Allen
Producer: Phil Tinline
Additional Information:
1) Ian McEwan's latest novel, Saturday, is published by Cape.
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