Ian McEwan on Brexit, Literature & Morality 🎙️

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Ian McEwan sits down with Lawrence Krauss to discuss everything from Brexit, revolutions of social behavior, to mistakes in literature, and a new era of moral decision-making.

Ian McEwan is a British novelist, screenwriter, and political activist. He is the author of 16 novels, 5 screenplays, 2 plays, and many short stories.

McEwan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

An avowed atheist, he has spoken out regularly against Islamism for its views on women and homosexuality. He is also a staunch supporter of Humanist causes and in 2011 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. He is a strong opponent of Brexit.

McEwan has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize six times, winning the prize in 1998 for his novel Amsterdam. His book Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2005. He has also been the recipient of many other awards including the 1999 Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepher Foundation in Hamburg and the 2019 Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement. He was awarded the CBE in 2000.

11 of his stories have been adapted into films, including his novel Atonement which was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, winning one.

The Times featured him on its list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945” and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the “100 most powerful people in British Culture”.

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The Origins Podcast, a production of The Origins Project Foundation, features in-depth conversations with some of the most interesting people in the world about the issues that impact all of us in the 21st century. Host, theoretical physicist, lecturer, and author, Lawrence M. Krauss, will be joined by guests from a wide range of fields, including science, the arts, and journalism. The topics discussed on The Origins Podcast reflect the full range of the human experience - exploring science and culture in a way that seeks to entertain, educate, and inspire.

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