Ian McEwan with Alex Salmond (2012 event)

According to Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, his
eclectic cultural interests range from Miss Marple to Star Trek
and in this unmissable event, recorded live at Edinburgh
International Book Festival, he talks about life beyond politics
with one of the most successful British literary novelists of the
past 50 years. Ian McEwan is best known for acclaimed novels such
as Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach, Enduring Love and the
Man Booker Prize-winning Amsterdambut he too boasts a wide range
of interests beyond fiction – not least among them film, music
and science.