Mark Lynas is an author and environmental activist who focuses on climate change. He is a Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s School of Geography and the Environment. In 2009 he was appointed advisor on climate change to the President of the Maldives, which aims to be the first carbon neutral country on Earth by […]
September 2, 2011
Heather Brooke is a freelance journalist and Freedom of Information campaigner famous for uncovering the MPs’ expenses scandal. She has written for most of the national papers and has worked as a consultant and presenter for Channel 4’s Dispatches. She is a visiting professor at City University’s Department of Journalism and is the author of Your […]
August 26, 2011
Becky Hogge is a technology journalist and author of Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia. Her writing on information politics, human rights and technology has appeared regularly in the New Statesman, and she has also been published in, among others, Index on Censorship, the Guardian, Prospect, Dazed and Confused and The Face. In 2007, […]
August 26, 2011
Brian Switek is a science writer and research associate at the New Jersey State Museum. Brian is the author of Written in Stone: The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth. He writes the blog Laelaps for Wired Science, and Dinosaur Tracking for Smithsonian. He has been a guest on BBC […]
August 12, 2011
John Mullen is a BBC producer and director, who makes films about art, history and popular culture. He has made several films exploring the BBC archive, including the award-winning ‘Kenneth Williams In His Own Words’. He is appearing on Little Atoms to discuss his most recent series, ‘Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words’, which features […]
August 5, 2011
Conor Woodman is an economist, author and presenter. His latest book is Unfair Trade: How Big Business Exploits the World’s Poor – and Why it Doesn’t Have to.  His passion is to unravel global economic issues in an accessible way – with a sense of fun and adventure. http://conorwoodman.com Conor is also the author of Around The World […]
July 29, 2011
Duncan Watts is a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, and a former professor of sociology at Columbia University. His research on social networks and collective dynamics has appeared in a wide range of academic journals, including Nature, Science, and the American Journal of Sociology. Duncan’s latest book is Everything is Obvious* *Once you Know The […]
July 22, 2011
Anita Sethi is an award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster, who has written for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Granta, Times Literary Supplement, and BBC, among others. In broadcasting she has appeared as a regular guest panelist and commentator on shows including the BBC’s Richard Bacon Show, Simon Mayo Show, the World Today, and Up All Night. […]
July 22, 2011
Padraig Reidy interviews Egyptian cartoonist Tarek Shahin. This event was part of Shubbak Festival 2011. http://alkhancomics.com/ This year has seen unprecedented moves for democracy across the Middle East. But what role has satire played in this? Can humour thrive under tyranny? And can dictators allow themselves to be laughed at? Is there such thing as “Arab comedyâ€? […]
July 15, 2011
Dr Michael Brooks is the author of Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science. Michael is a journalist, broadcaster, and a consultant at New Scientist.  His previous books include the acclaimed non-fiction title 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense and the techno-thriller Entanglement, as well as The Big Questions: Physics. http://www.michaelbrooks.org His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, […]
September 12, 2011
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