Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it, is there?

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Hello, I'm Jason Gots, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

Since 2008, Big Think has been bringing you big ideas in small concentrated doses from some of the most creative thinkers around.

On the Think Again podcast, we step outside of our comfort zone, surprising my guests and me,

your host, with ideas from these archives that we didn't necessarily come here prepared to discuss.

Today I'm very, very happy to be here with Ian McEwen.

He's the best-selling author of 16 books, including Atonement, which won the National

Book Critics Circle Award and the W.H. Smith Literary Award and Amsterdam, which won the Booker

Prize.

His latest book, Nutshell, is a darkly, hilarious, brilliant riff on Shakespeare's Hamlet,

told from the point of view of an extremely articulate nine-month-old fetus,

viewing the unfolding plot through a glass darkly from the vantage point of its mother's womb.

Welcome to think again.

Thank you, Jason.

I wonder, you know, just for the readers, and I guess, spoiler alert, we're probably going to get into territory here that's going to give some things away.

I mean, I want to kind of dance around it.

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