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welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in our culture of 24/7 news and trending social media reactions, it sometimes takes a novelist s eye to chart the deeper currents swirling beneath society s surface. my guest today relishes entering choppy waters and swimming against the cultural tide. lionel shriver is a british based american writer whose fiction has addressed school shootings, obesity, economic crisis and, in her latest book, voluntary euthanasia. she is a contrarian, but is she also a combatant in the western world s culture wars? lionel shriver in new york, welcome to hardtalk. it s a pleasure to talk to you. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. would it be fair to say, judging from your recent writing, that your creative mind is increasingly preoccupied with ageing and with thoughts of mortality? um. short answer, yes. long answer, i think i ve always had a morbid streak and also a strange consciousness of ageing. my first novel was written about a prot ....
now it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in our culture of 24/7 news and trending social media reactions, it sometimes takes a novelist s eye to chart the deeper currents swirling beneath society s surface. my guest today relishes entering choppy waters and swimming against the cultural tide. lionel shriver is a british based american writer whose fiction has addressed school shootings, obesity, economic crisis and, in her latest book, voluntary euthanasia. she is a contrarian, but is she also a combatant in the western world s culture wars. lionel shriver in new york, welcome to hardtalk. it s a pleasure to talk to you. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. would it be fair to say, judging from your recent writing, that your creative mind is increasingly preoccupied with ageing and with thoughts of mortality? um. short answer, yes. long answer, i think i ve always had a morbid streak and also a strange consciousness of ageing. my first no ....
now on bbc news, time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in our culture of 24/7 news and trending social media reactions, it sometimes takes a novelist s eye to chart the deeper currents swirling beneath society s surface. my guest today relishes entering choppy waters and swimming against the cultural tide. lionel shriver is a british based american writer whose fiction has addressed school shootings, obesity, economic crisis and, in her latest book, voluntary euthanasia. she is a contrarian, but is she also a combatant in the western world s culture wars? lionel shriver in new york, welcome to hardtalk. it s a pleasure to talk to you. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. would it be fair to say, judging from your recent writing, that your creative mind is increasingly preoccupied with ageing and with thoughts of mortality? um. short answer, yes. long answer, i think i ve always had a morbid streak and also a strange consciousness of ageing. my ....
now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in our culture of 24/7 news and trending social media reactions, it sometimes takes a novelist s eye to chart the deeper currents swirling beneath society s surface. my guest today relishes entering choppy waters and swimming against the cultural tide. lionel shriver is a british based american writer whose fiction has addressed school shootings, obesity, economic crisis and, in her latest book, voluntary euthanasia. she is a contrarian, but is she also a combatant in the western world s culture wars. lionel shriver in new york, welcome to hardtalk. it s a pleasure to talk to you. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. would it be fair to say, judging from your recent writing, that your creative mind is increasingly preoccupied with ageing and with thoughts of mortality? um. short answer, yes. long answer, i think i ve always had a morbid streak and also a strange consciousness of ageing ....