[display_podcast] Philippe Legrain is a journalist and writer, based in London but interested in the whole world. He is fascinated by how economics, politics and culture combine to form the big picture and how the world is coming together through globalisation while becoming ever more diverse through cultural mixing and individual choice. Philippe writes primarily […]
January 11, 2008
[display_podcast] Claire Fox is the director of the Institute of Ideas (IoI), which she established to create a public space where ideas can be contested without constraint. Claire initiated the IoI while co-publisher of the controversial and ground-breaking current affairs journal LM magazine (formerly Living Marxism). The IoI has since worked with a variety of […]
December 21, 2007
[display_podcast] John O’Farrell is an author and journalist. He has published three novels, The Best a Man Can Get, This is Your Life and May Contain Nuts, a memoir of his support for the Labour Party in the wilderness years Things Can Only Get Better, and three collections of his Guardian column, Global Village Idiot, […]
December 14, 2007
[display_podcast] Howard Jacobson is a writer of both non-fiction and novels, and a journalist, with a regular column in The Independent. he has described himself as “a Jewish Jane Austen,” and is often described as “A British Phillip Roth” by others. Howard’s novels include Coming from Behind, No More Mr. Nice Guy and The Mighty […]
December 7, 2007
[display_podcast] Simon Ardizzone is a freelance editor and filmmaker living and working in the UK. Since graduating from the National Film and Television School in 1995. Simon has worked on over 50 films for English and American broadcasters. Hacking Democracy, his first documentary, co-produced and directed with Russell Michaels, was nominated for Outstanding Investigative Journalism […]
November 23, 2007
[display_podcast] Toby Young is a journalist, author and critic. Currently associate editor of the Spectator, Toby founded the short lived Modern Review with Julie Burchill. After the magazines closure, Toby went to New York to work for Vanity Fair. His failure to make it as a glossy magazine journalist is documented in his best-selling memoir […]
November 21, 2007
[display_podcast] A Little Atoms Live Event. Join us at the delightful Miller’s Academy in Notting Hill, Where Neil Denny will be interviewing Journalist Johann Hari about his career, his writing and other stuff we haven’t decided on yet. If you are familiar with Johann’s work though you can be sure it will be challenging, possibly […]
November 16, 2007
[display_podcast] Brendan O’Neill is the editor of spiked, the online magazine with the modest ambition of making history as well as reporting it. He started his career in journalism at spiked ‘s predecessor, LM magazine, until that was forced to close following a libel action brought by ITN. Brendan’s writing has been published widely on […]
November 9, 2007
[display_podcast] Natalie Haynes is a stand-up comedian, journalist and author, and briefly a teacher of Latin and Greek. Her first solo comedy show, Six Degrees of Desolation, was nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award in 2002. Natalie has made numerous radio shows for Radio 4, most recently Laughing Matters and Classical Comedy. She is […]
November 2, 2007
[display_podcast] Paul Evans is a blogger and an online activist. His CV includes helping to establish a successful web-development worker co-op, and establishing the ‘Councillor.info’ project to get local Councillors to become active users of web-technology. Paul has established online projects with almost all of the major trade unions in the UK, and he worked […]
January 18, 2008
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