[display_podcast] Timandra Harkness was formerly the director of FameLab (the Cheltenham Science Festival’s search for new talent in Science Communication) and of Engaging Cogs (a forum for public discussion around engineering). Timandra now works as a consultant and trainer in sharing science and engineering with the public. She hosts and facilitates events for organisations including the […]
October 30, 2009
[display_podcast] Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster, journalist, blogger and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck College. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Warwick University. Mark was a priest in the Church of England between 1994-96, but quit the church as an Atheist. Mark now sees himself firmly as an Agnostic. His books include […]
October 23, 2009
[display_podcast] Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. Marcus has written a number of popular science books, including The Magic Furnace, The Universe Next Door, The Never-ending Days of Being […]
October 16, 2009
[display_podcast] Adam Rutherford is a professional geek. He holds a PhD in genetics, is an editor at the science journal Nature, and presents radio and television programs, including Cell for BBC4: a series covering four billion years of evolution and 300 years of biology, intrigue, betrayal and rather more sperm than is absolutely necessary. Writing […]
October 9, 2009
The Amazing Meeting (TAM), London took place on the 3rd and 4th October 2009, and saw around 600 Skeptics converge for a fundraising celebration of science, critical thinking and entertainment in the heart of the city, on behalf of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Neil Denny of Little Atoms, and Rebecca Watson (The Skeptics’ […]
October 2, 2009
[display_podcast] Peter Cave is the author of Humanism: A Beginner’s Guide, which BHA President Polly Toynbee described as “A book for our times”, and of the best-selling Can a Robot Be Human? and What’s Wrong with Eating People? – both books containing 33 puzzles about religious belief as well as about reasoning, logic, ethics and political themes. His […]
September 25, 2009
[display_podcast] The 1st October 2009 sees the launch of The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas. This episode of Little Atoms features Neil and Padraig in conversation with 3 old friends of the show, editor Ariane Sherine, and contributors Natalie Haynes and Josie Long. We discuss the genesis (!) of the book, our contributions, the ideal christmas, […]
September 11, 2009
[display_podcast] Francis Wheen is a writer, broadcaster and journalist. Francis can regularly be heard on Radio 4’s The News Quiz, and seen on Have I Got News For You. His docudrama about Harold Wilson, The Lavender List, was broadcast on BBC4 in March 2006. His latest book is Strange Days Indeed. First broadcast on 11th […]
August 26, 2009
[display_podcast] A Resonance FM ClearSpot show presented by Neil Denny of Little Atoms and Fari Bradley of Six Pillars to Persia. The recent Iranian elections were mired in controversy and accusations of corruption. Early in August around 100 so called “opposition leaders” appeared in a Tehran courtroom, in what has been described as a Stalinist […]
August 21, 2009
[display_podcast] Donna Dickenson talks to Neil Denny about who owns our bodies and the ethics of gentics, tissue and organ donation. Prof. Dickenson is the first woman recipient of the International Spinoza Lens award for her contribution to public debate on ethics. She is emeritus professor of medical ethics and humanities at the University of […]
November 6, 2009
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