26 June 2008

Little Atoms with Mary Roach


On this week's show Neil Denny talks to author Mary Roach.

Mary Roach has written for the Guardian, Vogue, GQ, Salon, Wired and the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, and Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife. Her latest book is Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science.

Tune in at the usual time and place. Friday 19.00 on Resonance 104.4FM in London or at Resonancefm.com worldwide.

19 June 2008

Little Atoms with Austin Williams


Little Atoms returns after a ten week absence, joining presenters Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy on this weeks show is Austin Williams.

Austin Williams is the director of the Future Cities Project, an author and illustrator at NBS. An architect and project manager by profession, he was previously technical editor of the Architects' Journal and now writes for a wide range of publications on urban and transport issues. He was the coordinator of the 'Future of' series of festivals and is a founder member of ManTownHuman. He tutors at the RCA and was previously architecture critic at BBC London.

Austin has recently been seen convening the Bookshop Barnies salon discussions for writers, and has published a book called The Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability, about which economist and previous Little Atoms guest Philippe Legrain said "Austin Williams has a gift for lobbing well-directed hand grenades."

Join us at the usual time, 19.00-19.30 Friday 20th June at Resonance 104.4FM in London or Resonance FM's website worldwide.

New (old) downloads

After a considerable delay, the last two Little Atoms interviews with Rosie Waterhouse and Mark Vernon are available to download.