Little Atoms 410 - DJ Taylor and The Prose Factory
DJ Taylor is the author of two acclaimed biographies, Thackerary (1999), and Orwell: The Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize in 2003. He has written eleven novels, the most recent being The...
16 Mars 201650min
Little Atoms special: Andrew Solomon and Marion Coutts
For the last two years Little Atoms has partnered with the Wellcome Book Prize, broadcasting interviews with the shortlisted authors. We’ll be doing the same this year, and to mark the announcement of...
11 Mars 20161h 10min
Little Atoms 409 Harry Parker Andrew Hankinson
Harry Parker grew up in Wiltshire. He was educated at Falmouth College of Art and University College London. He joined the British Army when he was 23 and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 200...
9 Mars 201656min
Little Atoms 408 - Jo Marchant and the science of mind over body
Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist based in London. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London, and an MSc in Science C...
2 Mars 201659min
Little Atoms 407: Maria Konnikova and The Confidence Game
Maria Konnikova was born in Moscow, Russia and came to the United States when she was four years old. She is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, where she writes a regular column with a focus on...
24 Feb 201657min
Little Atoms 406 - Kathryn Harkup and A is for Arsenic
Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a PhD then a postdoc at the University of York before realising that talking, writing and demonstrating science appealed far more than spendin...
17 Feb 201659min
Little Atoms 405 - Helen Fitzgerald's Viral
Helen FitzGerald is the bestselling author of Dead Lovely (2007) and nine other adult and young adult thrillers, including My Last Confession (2009), The Donor (2011) and most recently The Cry (2013),...
10 Feb 201659min
Little Atoms 310 – Matthew Kneale & Suzanne Moore
Matthew Kneale studied Modern History at Oxford University. He is the author of several novels, including English Passengers which won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His...
5 Feb 20161h 4min
