Little Atoms 665 - George Saunders' A Swim In A Pond In The Rain
On this week's show, George Saunders, author of the Booker Prize winning novel Lincoln In The Bardo, talks to Neil about the genius of the Russian short story in his latest book A Swim In A Pond In Th...
12 Jan 202131min
Little Atoms 664 - John Lanchester's Reality and Other Stories
Just in time for Christmas! John Lanchester joins Neil for some spooky stories in his first short story collection, Reality and Other Stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
24 Des 202026min
Little Atoms 663 - Alex Ross' Wagnerism
Alex Ross graduated from Harvard in 1990. He wrote for the New York Times from 1992 until 1996 when he became staff writer at the New Yorker. His first book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twenti...
8 Des 202029min
Little Atoms 662 - Noreena Hertz's The Lonely Century
Noreena Hertz is a renowned thought leader, academic, and broadcaster who was named by The Observer “one of the world’s leading thinkers” and by Vogue “one of the world’s most inspiring women.” Her pr...
1 Des 202030min
Little Atoms 661 - Gavin Francis' Island Dreams
Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and GP. He is the author of four books of non-fiction, including Adventures in Human Being, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish No...
24 Nov 202029min
Little Atoms 660 - William Boyd's Trio
William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. His latest novel is T...
17 Nov 202028min
Little Atoms 659 - Rebecca Wragg Sykes' Kindred
Rebecca Wragg Sykes has been fascinated by the vanished worlds of the Pleistocene ice ages since childhood, and followed this interest through a career researching the most enigmatic characters of all...
10 Nov 202054min
Little Atoms 658 - Kate Summerscale's The Haunting of Alma Fielding
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award,...
31 Okt 202025min
