WONDER - Gaia Vince - PLANET
Gaia Vince is a freelance British environmental journalist, broadcaster and non-fiction author who writes for The Guardian and BBC Online. She was previously news editor of Nature and online editor of...
28 Nov 201637min
WONDER - Vahni Capildeo - OTHER
Vahni Capildeo has published four poetry collections including Undraining Sea (2009), Dark & Unaccustomed Words (2012) – longlisted for the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature – Utter (2013...
28 Nov 201622min
WONDER - Roger Penrose - NUMBERS
Sir Roger Penrose, Ph.D., OM, FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadha...
28 Nov 201634min
WONDER - Michel Faber - LOVE
Michel Faber has written eight books, including the highly acclaimed The Book of Strange New Things, The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fahrenheit Twins and the Whitbread-shortlisted novel Under the...
28 Nov 201636min
WONDER - Jon Copley And Caspar Henderson - LIFE
Jon Copley is Associate Professor of Marine Ecology at the University of Southampton, and the first British person to dive to a depth of five kilometres in the ocean. As a marine biologist, his resear...
28 Nov 201642min
WONDER - David Nicholl - INJUSTICE
David Nicholl is a neurologist, human rights activist, fundraiser for Amnesty International, and online columnist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. In March 2006 he initiated a letter in the medical jou...
28 Nov 201625min
WONDER - Gavin Francis - HUMAN
Gavin Francis qualified in medicine from Edinburgh in 1999, then spent ten years travelling, visiting all seven continents. He is the author of three books: True North, Travels in Arctic Europe (2008...
28 Nov 201630min
WONDER - Max Porter - GRIEF
Max Porter is a senior editor at Granta Books and Portobello Books. He previously managed an independent bookshop and won the Young Bookseller of the Year award. He lives in South London with his wife...
28 Nov 201636min
