Little Atoms 964 - Oliver Basciano's Outcast
Oliver Basciano is a journalist and critic based in São Paulo and London. On this episode of Little Atoms, he talks to Neil Denny about Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World, hi...
8 Aug 202527min
Little Atoms 963 - Claire Adam's Love Forms
Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She was educated in the US and now lives in London. Her first novel Golden Child won multiple prizes and was named one of the BBC's '100 Novels ...
1 Aug 202526min
Little Atoms 962 - Mike Jay's Free Radicals
Mike Jay has written extensively on scientific and medical history and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal. His previous books on the history of drugs inclu...
24 Jul 202529min
Little Atoms 961 - Brandy Schillace's The Intermediaries
Brandy Schillace is a historian, former professor and museum professional, and former editor of Medical Humanities, a social-justice journal. She writes about gender, medical history, and neurodiversi...
22 Jul 202537min
Little Atoms 960 - Wendy Erskine's The Benefactors
Wendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move. She was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, longlisted for the Gordon Bu...
18 Jul 202533min
Little Atoms 959 - David Farrier's Nature's Genius
David Farrier is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Edinburgh. David's first book, Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, looked at the marks we are leaving on the plan...
11 Jul 202528min
Little Atoms 958 - Marie Rutkoski's Ordinary Love
Marie Rutkoski is a New York Times bestselling author of several novels for children and young adults. She grew up in Illinois as the oldest of four children, and has lived in Moscow, Prague, and Pari...
4 Jul 202529min
Little Atoms 957 - Gurnaik Johal's Saraswati
Gurnaik Johal is a writer from West London. His 2022 collection We Move won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Tata Literature Live! Prize. Its opening story won the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize. O...
26 Jun 202528min
