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A Terribly Serious Adventure Podcast

The Iris Murdoch Society podcast

CHAPTER

The Origins of the Book

Miles Maas was born in India and only came to the UK as an adult. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford before becoming a journalist. His book is based on interviews with 20th century philosophers for BBC's Men of Ideas programme. The interviewees include Iris Murdoch, Miles Burney,. Anthony Kenny and Bernard Williams. They were interviewed by British philosopher Brian McGee who died in 2007.

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