[display_podcast] Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. Marcus has written a number of popular science books, including The Magic Furnace, The Universe Next Door and The Never-ending Days of […]
November 21, 2008
[display_podcast] Adam Curtis is a producer, writer and director of television documentaries such as Pandora’s Box, The Mayfair Set, The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares and The Trap. Curtis’ programs, though always about serious issues, maintain a sense of tongue-in-cheek humour and are characteristic in their extensive use of archive footage. In […]
November 14, 2008
[display_podcast] Colin Blakemore is Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford University. He studied Medical Sciences in Cambridge and completed a PhD in Physiological Optics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1968. He also holds Professorships at the University of Warwick and the Duke University – National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, where he is […]
November 6, 2008
[display_podcast] Susan Jacoby is an independent scholar whose work now focuses on American intellectual history, the author began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post. Jacoby’s Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004), was hailed in The New York Times as an “ardent and insightful work” that “seeks to rescue a proud […]
November 4, 2008
[display_podcast] Jonathan Meades is a writer on architecture, culture and food, a novelist and television presenter. He was restaurant critic of The Times for 15 years. Jonathan’s writing includes the short story collection Filthy English, the novels Pompey and The Fowler Family Business , as well as a collection food writing, a DVD box set, […]
November 30, 2008
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