[display_podcast] Alex Butterworth is a writer, dramatist and researcher who has worked across a wide range of media; his projects include television drama-documentaries, virtual online communities, educational websites for major cultural institutions and action-adventure games. He is the co-author with Ray Laurence of Pompeii: The Living City, which won the Longmans-History Today New Generation Book […]
April 9, 2010
[display_podcast] Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where he runs the pioneering BEYOND Centre for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He also chairs SETI‘s Post-Detection Taskgroup, so if scientists succeed in finding intelligent life, he will be among the first to know. In addition to his many scientific awards, Davies was […]
April 2, 2010
[display_podcast] Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, and a contributor to Wired, The Guardian, Popular Science, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. A visiting senior lecturer at the Open University, he was formerly Director of […]
March 26, 2010
[display_podcast] Neil Denny talks to Vadim Jean about his upcoming film, In the Land of the Free. In the Land of the Free is a documentary feature that examines the story of Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King. They are known as The Angola 3 and have spent almost a century between them in solitary […]
March 19, 2010
[display_podcast] Ian McEwan has written two collections of stories, First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets, and 12 novels including The Cement Garden, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Enduring Love, Atonement and Saturday. He won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998. Ian’s latest novel is Solar. This show featured Adam Rutherford as a guest host. http://www.ianmcewan.com First broadcast on 19th March 2010
March 14, 2010
On the evening of 14th March 2010 the Palace Theatre in London was host to The Big Libel Gig, a fundraiser for the Libel Reform Campaign. Rebecca Watson and Neil Denny were present for Little Atoms and recorded interviews with: Simon Singh, Tim Minchin, Marcus Brigstocke, Tracey Brown, Richard Wiseman, Brian Cox, Ben Goldacre, Dara O’Briain, Ariane Sherine, Ed Byrne, Shappi Khorsandi and Robin Ince. The show contains […]
March 12, 2010
[display_podcast] Stephanie Merritt  is a writer for the Observer. She has contributed to a variety of newspapers and magazines as well as radio and television. She is the author of two novels, Gaveston ( 2002) and Real ( 2005), one non-fiction, The Devil Within, (2008) and the screenplay for Real, commissioned by Gabriel Byrne’s Plurabelle Films. She also […]
March 5, 2010
[display_podcast] Tom Standage is the business editor of The Economist. He started his career as the Science and Technology Editor at the Guardian, and has written several books which merge popular science and history including Victorian Internet, The Neptune File and The Mechanical Turk and A History of the World in 6 Glasses. His latest […]
February 19, 2010
[display_podcast] Neil Denny and special guest presenter Marcus Chown talk to Stuart Clark. Stuart Clark is one of the UK’s most widely read astronomy journalists. A former editor of Astronomy Now, He has a PhD in astrophysics and until 2001 was director of public astronomy education at the University of Hertfordshire. In 2001 the Independent ranked him […]
February 5, 2010
[display_podcast] Christopher Hird is a leading figure in UK independent documentary making. He is chair of the Channel Four Britdoc Foundation; a trustee of the Grierson Trust, the Wincott Foundation and Index on Censorship. In January 2008 Christopher Hird started Dartmouth Films, and has produced such films as Cameron’s Money Men, Inside the Saudi Kingdom, […]
April 16, 2010
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