Little Atoms 644 - Adam Hart's Unfit For Purpose
Adam Hart is a biologist, broadcaster, academic and author. Professor of Science Communication at the University of Gloucestershire, Adam is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, and a presenter on BB...
13 Juli 202032min
Little Atoms 643 - Emily Anthes' The Great Indoors
Science Writer Emily Anthes on her new book The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behaviour, Health, and Happiness. Emily talks to Neil about designing better hospitals,...
6 Juli 202028min
Little Atoms 642 - Simon Stephenson's Set My Heart To Five
Simon Stephenson is an author and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. His previous book Let Not The Waves Of The Sea won Best First Book at the Scottish Book Awards. Set My Heart To Five is his debut n...
29 Juni 202027min
Little Atoms 641 - Lars Iyer's Nietzsche And The Burbs
Lars Iyer is the author of the novels Nietzsche and the Burbs (2020) and Wittgenstein Jr (2014). He has also written a trilogy of novels, Spurious, Dogma and Exodus, which has received rave reviews in...
22 Juni 202025min
Little Atoms 640 - Richard Atkinson's Mr Atkinson's Rum Contract
Richard Atkinson is a publisher who has been behind some of the most successful cookbooks of recent years. He lives in London but has a deep-rooted affection for the north of England, the land of his ...
15 Juni 202028min
Little Atoms 639 - David Farrier's Footprints
David Farrier teaches English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. In 2017 he was the recipient of the Royal Society of Literature's Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction, and his work had appear...
8 Juni 202029min
Little Atoms 638 - Mark O'Connell's Notes From An Apocalypse
Mark O'Connell is the author of To Be a Machine, which won the Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017. He lives in Dublin with his family. He writes for the Guardia...
1 Juni 202035min
From The Archive - Fern Riddell's Death In Ten Minutes
Dr Fern Riddell is a historian specialising in sex, suffrage and culture in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. She appears regularly on TV and radio, and writes for the Guardian, Huffington Post, Teleg...
25 Maj 202040min
