[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 and The Never-ending Days of […]
November 21, 2008
[display_podcast] Adam Curtis is a producer, writer and director of television documentaries such as Pandora’s Box, The Mayfair Set, The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares and The Trap. Curtis’ programs, though always about serious issues, maintain a sense of tongue-in-cheek humour and are characteristic in their extensive use of archive footage. In […]
November 14, 2008
[display_podcast] Colin Blakemore is Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford University. He studied Medical Sciences in Cambridge and completed a PhD in Physiological Optics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1968. He also holds Professorships at the University of Warwick and the Duke University – National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, where he is […]
November 6, 2008
[display_podcast] Susan Jacoby is an independent scholar whose work now focuses on American intellectual history, the author began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post. Jacoby’s Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004), was hailed in The New York Times as an “ardent and insightful work” that “seeks to rescue a proud […]
November 4, 2008
[display_podcast] Jonathan Meades is a writer on architecture, culture and food, a novelist and television presenter. He was restaurant critic of The Times for 15 years. Jonathan’s writing includes the short story collection Filthy English, the novels Pompey and The Fowler Family Business , as well as a collection food writing, a DVD box set, […]
October 24, 2008
[display_podcast] Rose Shapiro has written for newspapers, magazines and medical journals including the Independent, the Observer, Time Out, Good Housekeeping and the Health Service Journal. Her recent book is; Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All.
October 17, 2008
[display_podcast] Douglas Murray is a bestselling author and commentator based in the UK. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Neoconservatism: Why We Need It , which Christopher Hitchens praised in the Washington Examiner as “a very cool but devastating analysis” and which caused Andrew Roberts to hail him ‘The right’s answer to Michael […]
October 15, 2008
[display_podcast] Richard Wilson read Philosophy at University College London and his first book, Titanic Express, recounts his search for the truth about the death of his sister Charlotte Wilson, who was killed in Burundi in 2000. He now works for a human rights organisation and lives in London. Richard’s latest book is Don’t Get Fooled […]
October 7, 2008
[display_podcast] Dr Ben Goldacre is a writer, broadcaster and medical doctor from the UK who is best known for his Bad Science column in the Guardian, examining the claims of scaremongering journalists, quack health products, pseudoscientific cosmetics adverts, and evil multinational pharmaceutical corporations, as well as wider themes such as the medicalisation of everyday life […]
September 26, 2008
[display_podcast] John Harvey studied and taught English Literature at the University of Cambridge, becoming Vice-Master of Emmanuel College in 2002. He came to clothes literature by way of visual art and has written a number of books on visual subjects including Victorian Novelists and their Illustrators and, more recently Men in Black. He is author […]
November 30, 2008
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