Little Atoms 625 - An Yu's Braised Pork
An Yu was born and raised in Beijing, and left at the age of eighteen to study in New York at NYU. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she writes her fiction in English. Braised Pork is her...
28 Jan 202028min
Little Atoms 624 - Ziya Tong's The Reality Bubble
Ziya Tong is on the board of WWF International and was formerly the Vice Chair of WWF Canada. She presented Daily Planet, Discovery Channel's flagship science programme, until its final season in 2018...
21 Jan 202030min
Little Atoms 623 - Susannah Cahalan's The Great Pretender
Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain, which was made ...
14 Jan 202031min
Little Atoms 622 - Romesh Gunesekera's Suncatcher
Romesh Gunesekera is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction including Reef, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Sandglass, winner of the inaugural BBC Asia Award, and The Match, the...
17 Dec 201926min
Little Atoms 621 - James Meek's To Calais, In Ordinary Time
James Meek is the author of six novels including The People's Act of Love which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Art...
10 Dec 201945min
Little Atoms 620 - Caleb Klaces' Fatherhood
Padraig Reidy hosts this episode, joined by Caleb Klaces to discuss his debut novel Fatherhood. They talk about the place of being a father today, the value of home and the novel as an adult bildungsr...
6 Dec 201926min
Little Atoms 619 - Emma Forrest's Royals
Emma Forrest has published three novels, an essay collection and the memoir Your Voice In My Head. An Anglo-American currently based in London, she recently wrote and directed her feature debut, Untog...
3 Dec 201926min
Little Atoms 618 - Amelia Gentleman's The Windrush Betrayal
In this episode Neil speaks to Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman. She was named journalist of the year (Press Gazette) and won the 2018 Paul Foot journalism award for her reportage on the Windrush sc...
26 Nov 201928min
