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
Little Atoms 457: Christine Negroni and the Crash Detectives
A journalist, aviation blogger, documentary producer and crash investigator, Christine Negroni has more than fifteen years' experience observing and participating in the international effort to create...
14 Mar 201758min
456: Brenna Hassett's Built on Bones
Brenna Hassett is an archaeologist who specializes in using clues from the human skeleton to understand how people lived and died in the past. She has worked on excavation sites all over the world inc...
7 Mar 201749min
Little Atoms 455 - Mark Stevenson and Rory Clements
Mark Stevenson is a writer, broadcaster, futurologist and founder of The League of PragmaticOptimists. He has written for Radio 4, The Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and New Statesman,and is the...
28 Feb 201756min
454: Sheena Kamal & Kate Hamer
Sheena Kamal has been a stunt double (for children), a stand-in (most notably Archie Panjabi) and a film/TV extra. She has been a producer’s assistant and most recently, a researcher for a gritty TV c...
21 Feb 201752min
