451: Peter Swanson's Her Every Fear
Peter Swanson's debut novel, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart (2014), was described by Dennis Lehane as 'a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride' and was nominated for the LA Times book award. His follo...
31 Jan 201732min
450: Chibundu Onuzo & Alexandra Kleeman
Chibundu Onuzo was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1991. Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and...
24 Jan 201758min
Little Atoms 449 - Laura Cumming's Vanishing Man
Laura Cumming has been the art critic of the Observer since 1999. Previously, she was Arts Editor for the New Statesman, presenter of Nightwaves on BBC Radio 3, and arts producer at the BBC World Serv...
17 Jan 201759min
448: Luke Dormehl's Thinking Machines
Luke Dormehl is a journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film. He writes and has written for Fast Company, Wired, The Observer, Empire, SFX, The Sunday Times, Politico and Cul...
10 Jan 201756min
447: Michael Palin’s A Sackful of Limericks
Recorded live at Waterstones Piccadilly on 1 December 2016, here's the last Little Atoms of 2016. Neil Denny chats with comedy legend Michael Palin about his book A Sackful of Limericks, followed by a...
20 Dec 201646min
446: Raoul Martinez's Creating Freedom
Raoul Martinez is a writer, artist, and award-winning filmmaker. Creating Freedom is his first book. It is informed by over a decade of research and is accompanied by a documentary series of the same ...
13 Dec 201657min
Something as Simple as a star with Simon Barraclough and Lucie Green
With performance, presentation, music and discussion, Lucie Green and Simon Barraclough look at the different ways of understanding "a thing so simple a thing as a star".Poet Simon Barraclough, whose ...
12 Dec 201639min
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
