
Little Atoms 463: Phillip Lewis and The Barrowfields
Phillip Lewis was born and raised in a small town called West Jefferson in the mountains of North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later received a law degree ...
9 Mai 201727min

Little Atoms 462: Mark O'Connell's To Be A Machine
Mark O'Connell is a writer based in Dublin. He is Slate’s books columnist, a staff writer at The Millions, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s “Page-Turner” blog; his work has been published...
3 Mai 201747min

461: Neil Wood's Good Cop Bad War
Neil Woods was an undercover cop whose brief was to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs. Starting out in the early 90s and making the rules up as he went, Neil was at the forefront of polic...
25 Apr 201748min

Little Atoms 460: Wellcome Prize 2017 Special - 2
The second of two episodes of Little Atoms with shortlisted writers for the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize. This week, Ed Yong on his book I Contain Multitudes, plus a repeat of our interview with the winne...
18 Apr 201745min

459: Wellcome Book Prize 2017 - Part one
The first of two episodes of Little Atoms with shortlisted writers for the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize. This week, Sarah Moss on her novel The Tidal Zone, David France of his history of AIDS How To Survi...
11 Apr 201756min

From the Little Atoms archive: Sarah Churchwell's Careless People
Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, writes regularl...
4 Apr 20171h 3min

From the archive – Noam Chomsky
In this episode of Little Atoms from 2009, Noam Chomsky examines the Obama administration and asks what has really changed.Chomsky describes the first term of the Bush administration as “off the spect...
28 Mar 201725min

458: George Saunders & Kathryn Hughes
458: George Saunders & Kathryn HughesGeorge Saunders is the author of nine books, including Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize (for t...
21 Mar 20171h 9min





















