Joanne Baker studied Physics at the University of Cambridge and took her PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Sydney in 1995. She is the author of the best selling 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know and is an editor at Nature magazine, where her speciality is space and Earth science. Her latest book […]
February 11, 2011
Chris Petit is a film and video-maker and an author. His films include Radio On, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and Chinese Boxes, and his video work has covered weather, surveillance and the M25. His novels include The Hard Shoulder, The Human Pool and The Passenger. Chris also writes regular reviews for The Guardian. First broadcast on […]
February 4, 2011
Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist who writes twice-weekly for the Independent, and the Huffington Post. He is a contributing writer for Slate, and regularly appears on the BBC’s Newsnight Review. His work has also appeared in a wide range of other international newspapers and magazines. http://www.johannhari.com First broadcast on 4th February 2011
February 3, 2011
Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World. He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine’s “Net Effect” blog about the Internet’s impact on global politics. http://www.evgenymorozov.com Morozov is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. […]
January 30, 2011
@littleatoms live event with @marcusdusautoy @AdamRutherford @bengoldacre & Liz Bonnin Recorded at the Free Word Centre, London on Wednesday 26th January 2011
January 28, 2011
Natalie Haynes is an author and an award-winning stand-up comedian. A regular panellist on the BBC’s Newsnight Review, Saturday Review and Front Row. She has been a guest columnist for The Times since 2006. Natalie has written a book for children, The Great Escape, and her latest is The Ancient Guide to Modern Life. http://www.nataliehaynes.com/ First broadcast […]
January 14, 2011
Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays on the history of technology. His latest book is Red Plenty. http://www.redplenty.com First broadcast on 14th January 2011 His first book, I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, was awarded the Writers […]
December 27, 2010
Listen to all the best bits of our 2010 radio show in this one hour-long special edition. Featuring interviews with Prof Brian Cox, Dara O’Briain, Ian McEwan, Lynn Barber, Cory Doctorow, Timothy Garton Ash , Rebecca Skloot, Jonathan Ross and Alan Moore. http://www.littleatoms.com/
December 25, 2010
John Mitchinson is Director of Research at QI, and the co-author with John Lloyd of various QI books, the latest of which is The Second Book of General Ignorance. If you’ve heard of QI, the chances are that you’ve heard of the BBC2 comedy panel quiz of the same name, hosted by Stephen Fry. Permanently installed guest Alan Davies develops the intellectual […]
December 25, 2010
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 on the 16th December 2010. The nights were curated by comedian Robin Ince, and featured a huge roster of comedians, musicians, scientists and others in a festive celebration of […]
February 18, 2011
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