Little Atoms 374 – Brandy Schillace & Caitlin Doughty

May 13, 2015

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On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, two books about Death. Brandy Schillace on Death’s Summer Coat, and Caitlin Doughty on Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Dr Brandy Schillace writes about culture, the history of medicine, and the intersections of medicine and literature. She is Research Associate and guest curator for the Dittrick Medical History Center […]

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Little Atoms 373 – Zoe Williams & Get it Together

May 6, 2015

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The day before the most uninspiring General Election in Decades, we talk to Zoe Williams about her new book Get it Together: Why We Deserve Better Politics.

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Little Atoms 372 – Wellcome Book Prize 2105 Part Two

April 29, 2015

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Neil Denny talks to two more shortlisted writers, Henry Marsh and Marion Coutts.

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Little Atoms 371 – Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Part One

April 22, 2015

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On Wednesday 29th April the winner of the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize will be announced. In the first of two special editions of Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to three of the shortlisted writers. This week: Miriam Toews, Scott Stossell and Sarah Moss. Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of […]

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Little Atoms 370 – Christopher Bollen & Orient

April 15, 2015

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On this week's Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to New York writer Christopher Bollen about his new novel Orient.

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Little Atoms 369 – Susan Pinker & Gary Wilson

April 8, 2015

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On this week’s Little Atoms, Susan Pinker on her book The Village Effect, and Gary Wilson on his book Your Brain on Porn. Susan Pinker is a developmental psychologist and award-winning newspaper columnist who writes about psychology and social science in the Globe and Mail. She has worked as a clinical psychologist for twenty-five years […]

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Little Atoms 368 – Andrew Scull & Madness in Civilization

April 1, 2015

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Andrew Scull is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego. He has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Princeton. His many publications include Museums of Madness; Social Order/Mental Disorder; The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700–1900; Masters of Bedlam; Madhouse: A Tragic Tale […]

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Little Atoms 367 – Mind’s Eye Interviews Five – Dennis Reuter

March 25, 2015

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Dr. Dennis Reuter is a New Horizons co-investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and the instrument scientist for Ralph, the New Horizons color imager and infrared spectrometer. New Horizons launched on 19th January 2006 and is scheduled to fly-by Pluto and its moons in July 2015. This is another interview recorded by Little Atoms […]

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Little Atoms 366 – Hannah Fry & Jon Ronson

March 18, 2015

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On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, Hannah Fry on The Mathematics of Love and Jon Ronson on his latest book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. Dr. Hannah Fry is a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Fry also regularly presents the Number Hub strand of BBC Worldwide’s YouTube […]

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Little Atoms 365 – Salena Godden & Kate Hamer

March 11, 2015

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On this week’s Little Atoms, two interviews. Neil Denny talks to Salena Godden about her memoir Springfield Road, and to Kate Hamer about her debut novel The Girl in the Red Coat. Salena Godden writes and performs poetry, fiction, memoir, radio drama and lyrics. Her latest book of poems, Fishing in the Aftermath, was published in […]

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