Aleks Krotoski is an academic and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. She is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Media and Communications Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Aleks writes for the Guardian and Observer newspapers, and hosts Tech Weekly, their technology podcast. […]
November 30, 2013
Eric Schlosser is an award-winning journalist, and a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and The New Yorker, among others. Eric Schlosser is the author of three previous best-selling books, Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Chew on This, and his latest is Command and Control. Also this week, Naomi Alderman tells us […]
November 23, 2013
Alex Cox is a film director, screenwriter, actor, and author. Among his features are Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walker, and Revengers Tragedy. Between 1998 and 1994 he hosted the BBC2 cult film series Moviedrome. He currently teaches film production and screenwriting at the University of Colorado. He is also the author of 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director’s Take on the […]
November 16, 2013
Rosa Rankin-Gee grew up in Kensal Rise, London, but now lives by the Parc de Belleville in Paris. In 2010, she was one of Esquire magazine’s ’75 Brilliant Young Brits’. In 2011, she won Shakespeare & Company’s international Paris Literary Prize. Rosa Rankin-Gee runs a night-bird version of a Book Club, where up to 300 people […]
November 9, 2013
John Lloyd has had one of those careers that’s difficult to summarize. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz, Quote… Unquote and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. He was the original choice to host Have I got News For You. […]
November 2, 2013
Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World (longlisted for the Ulysses Reportage Prize) andThe Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste (shortlisted for the BMA Book Prize and an Economist Top Ten Book of the Year). She has written for the New York Times, Guardian, Independent, London Review […]
October 26, 2013
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.
December 7, 2013
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