[display_podcast] Stewart Lee is a writer and stand-up comedian. He has written for radio, television, theatre, newspapers and magazines and performed as a stand-up comedian all over the world. His first novel, The Perfect Fool, was published in July 2001. He is co-author with the composer Richard Thomas of Jerry Springer: The Opera, which was […]
September 1, 2006
[display_podcast] Ophelia Benson is the the Editor of the website Butterflies and Wheels, which was set up to defend Enlightenment values and to combat Pseudoscience and Cultural Relativism. Ophelia is also Deputy Editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine. She writes a monthly column for The Philosophers’ Magazine Online. Ophelia is co-author with Jeremy Stangroom of The […]
August 18, 2006
[display_podcast] Paul Anderson is a former editor of Tribune and deputy editor of the New Statesman, currently a lecturer at City University. His book of George Orwell’s columns for Tribune, Orwell in Tribune, is published next month by Politico’s. Pauls Blog can be found here. http://libsoc.blogspot.com/
August 4, 2006
[display_podcast] Jeremy Stangroom has a PhD in political sociology. He’s the New Media Editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine and webmaster for The Royal Institute of Philosophy. He is the editor/author of numerous books, including What Scientists Think (Routledge, 2005) and What Philosophers Think (with Julian Baggini – Continuum, 2003). Jeremy is joint author with Ophelia […]
July 21, 2006
[display_podcast] Paul Berman is a writer on politics and literature. His books, which have been translated into fourteen languages, include “A Tale of Two Utopias”, “Terror and Liberalism”, and “Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and its Aftermath”. He writes for The New Republic (where he is a contributing editor) and […]
July 7, 2006
[display_podcast] Brendan O’Neill is the deputy 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 […]
June 23, 2006
[display_podcast] Philip Escoffey AKA The Grey Man, is one of the UK’s top psychic illusionist/mind readers. A Psychology graduate, Philip has been earning a living as a mentalist for the last 8 years. A confirmed skeptic, Philip is dismissive of spiritualists, mediums and astrologers. However, he has a deep academic interest in the reasons why […]
June 12, 2006
[display_podcast] Frank Furedi is professor of sociology at University of Kent, and author of a number of books including Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear. During the past decade his intellectual work has been devoted towards clarifying the meaning of humanism for the twenty-first […]
June 9, 2006
[display_podcast] A show recorded at the launch of the Euston Manifesto, which took place on the evening of May 25th 2006 at the Union Chapel, Islington, London. The evening was presented by Nick Cohen, and speeches were given by four of the original signatories of the Manifesto; Norman Geras, Shalom Lappin, Eve Garrard and Alan […]
May 26, 2006
[display_podcast] Little Atoms presents a panel discussion on the rise of anti-Semitism, with particular emphasis on the political left. David Hirsh teaches in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research interests are in antisemitism, Israel/Palestine, nationalism, fundamentalism, cosmopolitanism, socio-legal studies, genocide, crimes against humanity and cosmopolitan law. David is the editor […]
September 15, 2006
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