Listen to all the best bits of our 2010 radio show in this one hour-long special edition. Featuring interviews with Prof Brian Cox, Dara O’Briain, Ian McEwan, Lynn Barber, Cory Doctorow, Timothy Garton Ash , Rebecca Skloot, Jonathan Ross and Alan Moore. http://www.littleatoms.com/
December 25, 2010
John Mitchinson is Director of Research at QI, and the co-author with John Lloyd of various QI books, the latest of which is The Second Book of General Ignorance. If you’ve heard of QI, the chances are that you’ve heard of the BBC2 comedy panel quiz of the same name, hosted by Stephen Fry. Permanently installed guest Alan Davies develops the intellectual […]
December 25, 2010
Extended Christmas specials recorded backstage at “Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People”, the “Variety version of the Royal Institute Christmas Lectures”, at the Bloomsbury Theatre on the 16th December 2010. The nights were curated by comedian Robin Ince, and featured a huge roster of comedians, musicians, scientists and others in a festive celebration of […]
December 18, 2010
Dr Richard Elwes is a writer, teacher, and researcher in Mathematics, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds. He Contributes to New Scientist and Plus Magazine and has publishes research on model theory. Dr Elwes is passionate about the public understanding of maths, which he promotes at talks and on the radio. His books include Maths […]
December 14, 2010
Kitty Ferguson was born in San Antonio, Texas. She now divides her time between South Carolina and Cambridge. An experienced science writer, her previous books include The Fire in the Equations, Measuring the Universe, The Nobleman and his Housedog and Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything. Her latest book is Pythagoras: His Lives and the Legacy of a […]
December 5, 2010
Little Atoms Live: Urban Renaissance? with Jonathan Meades & Will Alsop Jonathan Meades is a broadcaster and the author of several books including three works of fiction – Filthy English, Pompey and The Fowler Family Business – and two anthologies of journalism. He is currently working on a book entitled An Encyclopaedia of Myself. Professor Will Alsop […]
December 1, 2010
Giles Sparrow is the author of The Universe and How to See It and The Planets and he was also a major contributor to Dorling Kindersley’s Universe. His latest book is Hubble:Window on the Universe, published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. He studied Astronomy at University College London, and Science Communication at Imperial […]
December 27, 2010
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