Little Atoms 685 - Gavin Francis's Intensive Care
Little Atoms' favourite GP Gavin Francis returns to talk about his new book Intensive Care, which details his experiences of Covid 19. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12 Apr 202130min
Little Atoms 684 - Bob Stanley and Tessa Norton's Excavate!
Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley talk to Neil about their new book Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
8 Apr 202127min
Little Atoms 683 - Sam Byers' Come Join Our Disease
Sam Byers is the author of Idiopathy (2013) and Perfidious Albion (2018). He talks to Neil about ideas of freedom, wellness and degradation in his new novel Come Join Our Disease. NB: For some reason ...
5 Apr 202131min
Little Atoms 682 - Melanie Challenger's How To Be Animal
Melanie Challenger talks to Neil about her new book How To Be Animal, which combines popular science, history and moral philosophy in a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and what it...
1 Apr 202134min
Little Atoms 681 - Jess Walter's The Cold Millions
Jess Walter talks to Neil about his new novel The Cold Millions, which features union organising, riots and the suppression of protest. Set in Spokane in 1909, but seemingly ripped out of today's head...
29 Mar 202131min
Little Atoms 680 - Courttia Newland's A River Called Time
Courttia Newland is the author of The Scholar, Snakeskin and The Gospel According to Cane. He co-edited The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, and his short stories have featured in various...
26 Mar 202127min
Little Atoms 679 - Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom
The Author of Homegoing Yaa Gyasi talks to Neil about the American opioid epidemic, finding meaning through both faith and science, and growing up in Alabama in her latest novel Transcendent Kingdom, ...
23 Mar 202130min
Little Atoms 678 - Kat Arney's Rebel Cell
Dr Kat Arney talks about how cancer breaks the rules, via naked mole rats, nazi scientists and chimney sweep's scrotums in her new book Rebel Cell. See her website for more details: https://www.rebelc...
19 Mar 202130min
