Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, and a contributor to Wired, The Guardian, Popular Science, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. A visiting senior lecturer at the Open University, he was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He is currently on the advisory council of the Open Rights Group..


He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His most recent novel was Makers, and his previous novel Little Brother, made it to the New York Times Bestsellers.


A new young-adult novel, For the Win, will be published in May 2010.
http://craphound.com/
http://boingboing.net/

2015-11-30 18:00:00 to 2015-11-30 18:41:16
2015-02-07 12:15:00
2015-02-08 12:15:00
2015-02-09 12:15:00
http://littleatoms.com/sites/default/files/podcast/corydoctorow_0.mp3

Graham Farmelo is Senior Research Fellow at the Science Museum, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Formerly a theoretical physicist, he is now an international consultant in science communication. He edited the best-selling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Sciencein 2002. Graham’s latest book is The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius.
http://www.thestrangestman.com/

2015-11-25 14:30:00 to 2015-11-25 14:56:27
http://littleatoms.com/sites/default/files/podcast/grahamfarmelo_0.mp3

David Stubbs joined the music magazine Melody Maker in 1986, and worked there for 12 years. His most famous creation, Mr Agreeable periodically reawakens over at The Quietus.

He has also written for The Guardian, NME, The Wire, When Saturday Comes and Uncut, and was a presenter of the Resonance FM football show Café Calcio.

David is the author of numerous books, including Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko but Don’t Get Stockhausen. His latest book is Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany.

2015-11-25 13:30:00 to 2015-11-25 14:28:08
2015-02-22 12:30:00
2015-02-24 12:30:00
2015-02-26 12:30:00
http://littleatoms.com/sites/default/files/podcast/little_atoms_360_david_stubbs_future_days.mp3

Andrew Mueller talks to Neil Denny & Padraig Reidy about the 21st Century.

Andrew was born in Wagga Wagga, Australia in 1968, and has lived in London and hotels since 1990. He currently writes on various subjects for the Independent, Independent on Sunday, Guardian, Monocle, Arena, Uncut, High Life, New Humanist and anyone else who’ll have him.
Andrew was previously the author of Rock & Hard Places and a contributing editor of Robert Young Pelton’s The World’s Most Dangerous Places. His latest book is I Wouldn’t Start From Here: The 21st Century and Where it All Went Wrong

According to Little Atoms regular Jonathan Meades, “Mueller is a gung-ho Candide with a taste for places that it is wiser to avoid. His book is graphic comic, bemused and properly contemptuous of faith and ideology” (Books of the Year, Evening Standard).

http://www.andrewmueller.net

Image: (C) Andy Vella / Foruli Ltd 2012. All rights reserved.

2015-11-25 12:30:00 to 2015-11-25 12:55:58
http://littleatoms.com/sites/default/files/podcast/andrewmueller.mp3

Neil Denny in conversation with neuroscientist David Eagleman about time perception, synesthesia and many possible afterlives. The interview includes David reading one of the short stories from his new book.


David Eagleman is is a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. He is best known for his work on time perception, synesthesia and neurolaw. He is also a fiction writer. David’s most recent book is Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives.
http://www.davideagleman.com

2015-12-01 00:00:00 to 2015-12-01 00:36:00
http://littleatoms.com/sites/default/files/podcast/davideagleman.mp3

Stewart Lee is a writer and stand-up comedian. He has written for radio, television, theatre, newspapers and magazines and performed as a stand-up comedian all over the world. His first novel, The Perfect Fool, was published in July 2001. He is co-author with the composer Richard Thomas of Jerry Springer: The Opera, which was denounced by the good folk of Christian Voice as “crude, offensive and blasphemous in the extreme”.

http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/

2015-11-27 01:30:00 to 2015-11-27 02:30:22
http://littleatoms.com/sites/default/files/podcast/stewartlee.mp3

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