Simon Ings is a novelist (The Weight of Numbers) and a science writer (The Eye). He edits Arc, a magazine of futures and fiction from the makers of New Scientist. Of his most recent novel, Dead Water, Martin McGrath wrote: “He succeeds in getting you to care about what happens to these people and then he beats […]
February 17, 2012
Helen Keen is a stand-up comedian and writer. Her solo shows mix stand-up with science, storytelling and inventively homemade props, spinning comedy out of such arcane and unlikely subjects as 19th-century Arctic exploration, or the development of the robot. Helen’s award winning show about space, It is Rocket Science!, was developed into a show for Radio 4, […]
February 10, 2012
Matthew Sweet is a writer and broadcaster. He talks to Little Atoms about his latest book is The West End Front. Sweet presents Night Waves and Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 and The Philosopher’s Arms and The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British […]
February 3, 2012
Dr Stuart Clark is one of the UK’s most widely read astronomy journalists.  He talks to Neil Denny about his series of fiction, The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth Trilogy, now on it’s second book, The Sensorium of God. A former editor of Astronomy Now, He has a PhD in astrophysics and until 2001 was director of public astronomy education at the […]
January 27, 2012
Christopher Barnatt  talks to Little Atoms about  his latest book: 25 Things You Need to Know About the Future. Chris is Associate Professor of Computing & Future Studies in Nottingham University Business School, and the author of ExplainingComputers.com, ExplainingTheFuture.com and their popular YouTube channels. He has written five previous books on computing and future studies including A Brief Guide to Cloud Computing, and […]
January 20, 2012
Nick Cohen is a columnist for the Observer. In this show Nick talks about the fight for free speech in the UK and about his latest release; You Can’t Read this Book. He does occasional pieces for many other publications, including Standpoint and The Spectator. Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous, a collection of his journalism, was published […]
January 13, 2012
Stephen Trombley is a writer, editor and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. He collaborated with Alan Bullock on the second edition of The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (1988), and was editor of The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (1999). His books include The Execution Protocol, The Right to Reproduce, and ‘All That Summer She Was […]
December 24, 2011
Extended Christmas specials recorded backstage at “Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People”, the “Variety version of the Royal Institute Christmas Lectures”, at the Bloomsbury Theatre. The nights were curated by comedian Robin Ince, and featured a huge roster of comedians, musicians, scientists and others in a festive celebration of science and rationalism. Interviews with Robin […]
December 9, 2011
Nigel Warburton is a contemporary philosopher. As well as being Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at The Open University, he is a presenter of the Philosophy Bites podcast, and teaches a popuar course on art and philosophy at Tate Modern. He is the author of several popular introductions to philosophy including Philosophy: The Basics and Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction. […]
December 2, 2011
Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist and blogger and pedant. Every job he’s ever had, whether as a ghost-writer or proof-reader or copy-writer, has been to do with words. He started The Inky Fool blog in 2009 and now writes a post almost daily. The blog has received worldwide attention and enjoys an average of 4,000 hits […]
February 24, 2012
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