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Little Atoms weekly round-up (the Maradona, Mason and Magna Carta edition)

This week we’ve been talking to playwright Nick Gill about wanting to punch David Cameron, learning about the rise of Islam in Naples, watchiing video of a tipsy Flann O'Brien on the first ever Bloomsday, falling in love with Paul Mason’s keynote speech at the Alternative Magna Carta festival and asking Nick Lane why life is the way it is.

Over on the Little(r) Atoms Tumblr we’ve been posting about chicken churches, humorous hair salons and dramatical sheep. All in a week’s work - naturally. 

'David Cameron's very punchable, isn't he?'

As his adaptation of The Trial opens at the Young Vic, playwright and polymath Nick Gill talks politics, privilege, creativity and Kafka

 

'He was looking for a book on Maradona when he came across the Quran'

 

New film Napolislam tells the story of Muslim converts in the Italian city

Video: the first Bloomsday was a shambolic, drunken mess

Fascinating archive footage of tipsy Irish literary legends

Nick Lane and Seth Mnookin

Nick Lane is a biochemist in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London and leads the UCL Origins of Life Programme. 

'The Magna Carta is a declaration of economic rights'

A transcript of Paul Mason's keynote speech at the Alternative Magna Carta festival, from 13 June 2015

This be the verse

 

 

 

In the particle of me that cares for this, I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss

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