Little Atoms 936 - Catherine Airey's Confessions
Catherine Airey grew up in England in a family of mixed English-Irish descent, and now lives between County Cork and Bristol. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her first no...
31 Jan 202529min
Little Atoms 935 - Keon West's The Science of Racism
Professor Keon West is a social psychologist at the University of London. He earned his doctorate from Oxford University in 2010 as a Rhodes Scholar and has since published more than seventy quantitat...
24 Jan 202535min
Little Atoms 934 - Nicola Dinan's Disappoint Me
Nicola Dinan grew up in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur and now lives in London. Bellies, her debut, won the Polari First Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards and Mo Siewcharran Prize, w...
17 Jan 202535min
Little Atoms 933 - Sumit Paul-Choudhury's The Bright Side
Sumit Paul-Choudhury is an astrophysicist-turned-journalist, former editor-in-chief of New Scientist magazine and has served as a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize (then Samuel Johnson Prize), the W...
10 Jan 202529min
Little Atoms 932 - Ken Hollings' The Trash Project
Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster based in London. He is the author of The Bright Labyrinth, Welcome To Mars, The Space Oracle and Destroy All Monsters. His work appears in a wide range of jour...
3 Jan 202541min
Little Atoms 931- Lola Young's Eight Weeks
Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey became one of the first Black Women members of the House of Lords in 2004. Raised in foster care in North London, she studied at the New College of Speech and Drama, the...
20 Dec 202431min
Little Atoms 930 - Miranda Sawyer's Uncommon People
Miranda Sawyer has written about pop music since 1988, beginning on Smash Hits before moving to Select, The Face and the Observer. Her first book Park and Ride explored the British suburbs, her second...
13 Dec 202439min
Little Atoms 929 - Niall Williams' Time Of The Child
Niall Williams was born in Dublin. He is the author of nine novels, including History of the Rain, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and Four Letters of Love, which will soon be a major motion...
6 Dec 202428min
