[display_podcast] Mary Roach has written for the Guardian, Vogue, GQ, Salon, Wired and the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, and Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife. Her latest book is Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex And Science.
June 20, 2008
[display_podcast] Austin Williams is the director of the Future Cities Project, an author and illustrator at NBS. An architect and project manager by profession, he was previously technical editor of the Architects’ Journal and now writes for a wide range of publications on urban and transport issues. He was the coordinator of the ‘Future of’ […]
April 4, 2008
[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. His books include Business: The Key Concepts, What Not to Say: Philosophy for Life’s Tricky Moments and The Philosophy of Friendship. His latest book is After Atheism: Science, Religion […]
March 28, 2008
[display_podcast] Rosie Waterhouse is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Publishing at City University and a freelance journalist with extensive experience as an investigative reporter, having worked on the staff of five national newspapers and as a TV reporter. She has twice been a member of the Sunday Times Insight team and worked […]
March 14, 2008
[display_podcast] Marcus du Sautoy is a professor of Mathematics at Oxford, a fellow of Wadham College and a research fellow at the Royal Society. He has been named by the Independent on Sunday as one of the UK’s leading scientists, and has written extensively for the Guardian, The Times and the Daily Telegraph, and has […]
March 7, 2008
[display_podcast] A pre-recorded interview on the subject of Holocaust denial, both historical and contemporary. Philip Spencer is Associate Dean at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University. He has published works on Victor Serge, Rosa Luxemburg, The Holocaust and Nationalism. He is an advisory editor of Engage Online. Dave Rich is Deputy […]
February 29, 2008
[display_podcast] Professor David Colquhoun, FRS, held the established (A.J. Clark) chair of Pharmacology at UCL, and was the Hon. Director of the Wellcome Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology. In October 2004, he became a Research Fellow. Like many previous holders of the chair (in particular, A.J. Clark, J.H. Gaddum, H.O. Schild and J.W. Black) his interests […]
February 8, 2008
[display_podcast] Damian Thompson is a leader writer for The Daily Telegraph and editor-in-chief of The Catholic Herald. He blogs for the Telegraph on religious affairs and is the author of a number of books, including Waiting for Antichrist: Charisma and Apocalypse in a Pentecostal Church and The End of Time: Faith and the Fear in […]
February 1, 2008
[display_podcast] Derek Pasquill worked as a civil servant at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in a unit dealing with engagement with the Islamic world. He grew increasingly concerned over the government’s tacit support for the US’s policy of extraordinary rendition, and with the Foreign Office’s policy of consulting on issues of concern to the Muslim […]
January 25, 2008
[display_podcast] Linda Grant is a journalist and author. Her first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, won the David Higham First Novel Prize and was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. Her second novel, When I Lived in Modern Times, won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Still Here was long listed for the Man Booker Prize. […]
June 27, 2008
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