Satire, Boris and Brexit with Ian McEwan and Razia Iqbal

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🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this week’s episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by the acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan. He was interviewed by the BBC’s Razia Iqbal to discuss his new satirical novella The Cockroach, in which a man wakes up one morning having been transformed into a giant creature who happens to be the most powerful man in Britain. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.3	Farra Gossat and me Daniel Ben Corrin.
0:50.4	This week we interview the novelist Ian McEwen. It was Rasia Iqbal from the BBC who spoke to him about his new book, The Cockroach. Daniel, what was it about?
0:59.1	So it's a biting political satire about a cockroach who wakes up and finds himself in the body of
1:06.6	the UK Prime Minister. Now obviously that is a metaphor for Prime Minister Boris
1:10.7	Johnson who as you could tell Ian McHughan is not the biggest fan of and
1:13.7	Razi Iqbal asked him his views on Brexit and about the current book.
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