[display_podcast] Gary Kent is the director of the pressure group Labour Friends of Iraq. Labour Friends of Iraq was launched in mid-2004 at fringe meetings at both the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party, with the aim of expressing solidarity with the Iraqi labour movement, particularly through the newly established Iraqi Federation of Trade […]
April 14, 2006
[display_podcast] Peter Tatchell is one of Britain’s foremost campaigners for sexual freedom and human rights. He was a founder member of radical gay-rights group Outrage!, whose confrontational tactics often saw Peter denounced in the press. He has been called a “Homosexual terrorist†by The Daily Mail, “Public enemy number one†by the Sunday Times, and […]
March 17, 2006
[display_podcast] Anthony Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSA is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumary Fellow of St Anne’s College. He has written and edited many books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are a biography of William Hazlitt and a collection of essays. Anthony’s latest book […]
March 3, 2006
[display_podcast] Jonathan Meades is a writer on architecture, culture and food, a novelist and television presenter. He has been a restaurant critic for The Times since 1986. His television series Abroad in Britain is now on its fourth series. Jonathan’s writing includes the short story collection Filthy English, the novels Pompey and The Fowler Family […]
February 17, 2006
[display_podcast] Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist and playwright. Since 2003 he has been a columnist for The Independent, and a Contributing Editor to Attitude. Johann’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, The Guardian and the Sydney Morning Herald amongst others. Johann has written a play, “Going Down […]
February 3, 2006
[display_podcast] Marcus du Sautoy is a professor of Mathematics at Oxford, a fellow of All Souls College and a research fellow at the Royal Society. Marcus has written a popular mathematics book, The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters and regularly contributes articles about mathematics to newspapers.
January 20, 2006
[display_podcast] Nick Cohen is a columnist for the Observer and New Statesman. He does occasional pieces for many other publications, including the London Evening Standard and New Humanist. Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous, a collection of his journalism, was published by Verso in 1999, and Pretty Straight Guys, a history of […]
January 6, 2006
[display_podcast] Oliver Kamm is a political commentator whose writing appears regularly in The Times. He has recently written a book, Anti -Totalitarianism: The Left-wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy, which argues for an interventionist foreign policy which stands up for democracy against totalitarianism, be that of the far left or the far right, and […]
December 23, 2005
[display_podcast] Dr Ben Goldacre works full time for the NHS AND writes the Bad Science column for The Guardian. A scourge of Pseudoscientists and quacks, Ben has taken aim at targets as varied as Penta Water, MRSA testing lab Chemsol Consulting and TV nutritionist “Dr” Gillian McKeith. Ben studied Medicine at Magdalen College Oxford where […]
December 9, 2005
[display_podcast] Padraig Reidy was Deputy Editor of New Humanist. He’s now News Editor of Index on Censorship and a presenter of an Internet Radio Show. His work has also featured in the Guardian, the Independent, Tribune, the Irish Examiner and the Irish Post, and he has made frequent appearances on BBC Radio. New Humanist celebrated […]
April 28, 2006
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