Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is currently cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. He is the author of the bestsellingQuantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, The Never Ending Days of Being Dead and The Magic Furnace. He also wrote The Solar […]
October 19, 2013
Ben Rawlence was formerly a senior researcher on Africa for Human Rights Watch. He has written for the Guardian, Prospect, London Review of Books, and others and contributed to BBC Radio 4. He studied Swahili and history at the University of London and received his master’s in international relations from the University of Chicago. Ben’s first book […]
October 8, 2013
Molly Oldfield studied Modern History at Oxford before becoming a writer and researcher on the BBC television show QI. She has worked on a string of bestselling QI books, writes the weekly QI column for the Daily Telegraph and is a researcher on a BBC Radio 4 show, The Museum of Curiosity. She is also the author of The Secret Museum, which looks […]
October 1, 2013
John Rogers is a writer and film-maker, author of This Other London – Adventures in the Overlooked City, and director of The London Perambulator and Make Your Own Damn Art – the world of Bob and Roberta Smith. He was also co-presenter and producer of Ventures and Adventures in Topography on Resonance fm. He writes the excellent Lost Byway blog.
October 26, 2013
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