Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan 's masterful new novel is a piece of speculative fiction that shows a radically altered UK on the other side of climate catastrophe and global warfare. But it centres on two academics reaching back into the past to uncover the secrets behind a poem performed only once and lost to history. We spoke with him about the novel's big themes, its human focus and how to bring past and future together in the present moment.

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Ian McEwan is an episode from The Waterstones Podcast by Waterstones.

This episode is 00:31:04 long.

This episode was published on Sep 16, 2025.

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