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PART I: Eleanor Wachtel talks with British author William Boyd, whose latest novel - Armadillo - looks at the life of a corrupt insurance adjuster in modern-day London. Boyd discusses the vicissitudes of life, the enduring class system in England, growing up in Africa, lucid dreaming, and the success of his latest book. PART II: Eleanor Wachtel interviews British author Ian McEwan. The discuss Enduring Love - his latest novel about the disastrous consequences of an incident wherein five men…

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of England's leading novelists, Ian McEwan. His new novel, Sweet Tooth, is about the private side of Cold War espionage.

Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan talks with Eleanor Wachtel about morality, imagination and his own growing up. They discuss his newest novel, Atonement, which explores the themes of shame, repentance, and of the possibility of absolution.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of England's finest writers, Ian McEwan. They talk about his post-9/11 novel, Saturday, and his latest dysfunctional romance, On Chesil Beach.

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's leading novelists. He's the author of such acclaimed works as the Booker Prize-winning Amsterdam and the hugely popular Atonement, which was made into an Oscar-nominated movie. Now, McEwan's back with a new book, Lessons - a story about a fictional alter-ego, Roland, with whom he shares an intimate background... until a transformative event leads Roland down a very different path.

Last spring at the International Literary Festival in Victoria, Eleanor Wachtel hosted a panel inspired by Rosemary Sullivan's latest book, Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession. The panel - called "Love in the Afternoon" - included six writers who came together to talk about love in life and literature. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks about grappling with romance and writing with the English Booker Prize-winning writer Ian McEwan, Irish novelist Clare Boylan, Scottish…

"Politics in Fiction" : French psychoanalyst and literary theorist, Julia Kristeva talks about her first novel, called The Samurai. And Ian McEwan writes about the underlying demons of western Europe in his new novel, Black Dogs.