[display_podcast] Terry Glavin is an award-winning author and journalist, an adjunct professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, and the editor of Transmontanus Books. His publications include This Ragged Place:Travels Across the Landscape, which was a Governor General’s Award finalist, and The Last Great Sea. His latest book The […]
October 19, 2007
[display_podcast] Heather Couper is one of the UK’s foremost broadcasters and writers on astronomy, space and science. She has produced and presented numerous radio and television programs, including the long running series “Seeing Stars” on the BBC World Service, and most recently “A History of British Rocketry” on Radio 4. She has written over 30 […]
October 12, 2007
[display_podcast] Anne Quesney is the Director of Abortion Rights. Abortion Rights is a national pro-choice campaign, leading the drive to bring British abortion law into line with public opinion – so that women can make their own reproductive decisions without the current unfair obstructions. Abortion Rights also coordinate opposition to continual attempts by the anti-choice […]
October 5, 2007
[display_podcast] Andrew Anthony is a feature writer and investigative journalist. He has written for the Observer for 10 years, and also writes for the Guardian, Vogue and the Saturday Telegraph. His features cover a wide range of subjects: politics, crime, sport, literature, TV and popular culture. His latest book is a polemical memoir, The Fallout: […]
June 22, 2007
[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 . He says of his books “I think the right […]
June 8, 2007
[display_podcast] Christopher Hitchens is a British born, but recently naturalised American Author, Journalist, Essayist and Literary Critic. Based in Washington D.C., Christopher is currently a writer for Vanity Fair and Slate, and an (acrimoniously) ex-writer for The Nation. Christopher’s most recently published book is God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Christopher’s books include […]
May 11, 2007
[display_podcast] Jonathan Meades returns for a second visit to Little Atoms. Jonathan is a writer on architecture, culture and food, a novelist and television presenter. He has been a restaurant critic for The Times since 1986. Jonathan’s writing includes the short story collection Filthy English, the novels Pompey and The Fowler Family Business as well […]
April 27, 2007
[display_podcast] Jonathan Derbyshire was born in Stockport but was brought up in the south east of England. He was educated at the Universities of Sussex and Warwick and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is a freelance literary journalist and part-time lecturer in philosophy. He is a regular writer […]
April 13, 2007
[display_podcast] James Randi is a magician and Skeptic, and founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation. James Randi has worked as a stage magician and escapologist since 1946, “The Amazing Randi” being a regular fixture on American television in the 1960’s and ’70’s. Subsequently James has become a world famous skeptic and debunker of the […]
March 30, 2007
[display_podcast] David Aaronovitch is a writer, broadcaster and commentator on international politics and the media. He started his media career in television, working as a producer on ITV’s Weekend World, and The BBC’s On The Record. David is currently a regular columnist for The Times. He has previously written for The Guardian, The Observer and […]
October 26, 2007
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