Little Atoms weekly round-up (the Maradona, Mason and Magna Carta edition)
Punching David Cameron, Islam in Naples, why life is the way it is and rare video of the first Bloomsday
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
