506 - Jillian Scudder's Astroquizzical
Jillian Scudder is an astrophysicist and assistant professor at Oberlin College, Ohio. She has been writing ‘Astroquizzical’, a blog answering space-related questions from the public, for over five ye...
23 Apr 201845min
504 - Wellcome Prize Special part 1: Meredith Wadman and Sigrid Rausing
In the first of three shows featuring shortlisted writers for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, Neil talks to Meredith Wadman about The Vaccine Race, and Sigrid Rausing about Mayhem: A Memoir.Meredith Wad...
19 Apr 201830min
504: David Adams' Genius With
Dr David Adam is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop and an editor at Nature, the world’s top scientific journal. Before that he was a specialist correspondent on the Guar...
16 Apr 201830min
503 - Aminatta Forna's Happiness
Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and the memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. Her books have won multiple prizes, including the C...
9 Apr 201836min
Penderyn Book Prize Special - David Hepworth
David Hepworth has been writing, broadcasting and speaking about music and media since the seventies. He was involved in the launch and editing of magazines such as Smash Hits, Q, Mojo and The Word, a...
5 Apr 201830min
501 - Jim Crace's The Melody
Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of eleven previous books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of...
2 Apr 201829min
Little Atoms 500! Philip Hensher’s The Friendly Ones
The 500th Little Atoms! Philip Hensher has written nine novels, including The Mulberry Empire, the Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, King of the Badgers and Scenes from Early Life, which won t...
26 Mar 201841min
499 - Cathi Unsworth’s Old Black Magic
Cathi Unsworth began a career in journalism at nineteen on the music weekly Sounds, and has since worked for music, arts, film and lifestyle journals. She is the author of five previous novels: Weirdo...
20 Mar 201834min
