445: Helen Czerski's Storm in a Teacup
Helen Czerski is a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at University College London. As a physicist she studies the bubbles underneath breaking waves in the open ocean to understand thei...
6 Dec 201634min
Little Atoms 444: Tim Marshall on the Power and Politics of Flags
Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 25 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio...
29 Nov 201656min
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
