Little Atoms 443 - Adam Rutherford's Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first gene...
22 Nov 201655min
442 – Simon Ings' Stalin and The Scientists
Simon Ings began his career writing science fiction stories, novels and films, before widening his brief to explore perception (The Eye), 20th-century radical politics (The Weight of Numbers), the shi...
15 Nov 201659min
401 – Hadley Freeman's Life Moves Pretty Fast
Recorded live at the first London Podcast Festival at King’s Place, Guardian writer Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s – why they are brilliant, what the...
8 Nov 201659min
440 – Naomi Alderman and Petina Gappah
Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers, and in 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as being selected as one of Wate...
1 Nov 20161h 4min
239 – Mike Massimino's Spaceman
Mike Massimino served as an astronaut for NASA between 1996 and 2014, going on two Space Shuttle missions to service the Hubble telescope, spending more than 30 hours on spacewalks. He has appeared as...
25 Okt 201656min
438 – Thomas Frank's Listen, Liberal or, Whatever Happened to The Party of The People
Thomas Frank is the author of Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, and What's the Matter with Kansas? A former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper's and a regular contributor to The G...
18 Okt 201637min
437 – Mark Greif's Against Everything
Mark Greif studied history and literature at Harvard, and English at Oxford as a British Marshall Scholar. In 2004, he co-founded the literary journal n+1 in New York and has been a principal at the m...
11 Okt 201658min
Little Atoms 436 - Colonel Alfred “Al” Worden
After graduating from West Point with a degree in Military Science, and from The University of Michigan with a Masters in Astronautical/Aeronautical Engineering, Colonel Alfred “Al” Worden had a caree...
4 Okt 201656min
