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Sinopsis
A Show About Ideas
Episodios
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Little Atoms 723 - Monisha Rajesh's Around The World In 80 Trains
02/11/2021 Duración: 38minMonisha Rajesh, author of Around The World in 80 Trains, talks to Neil about how her obsession with train travel began, puts up a hearty defence of Amtrak, and tells of her travels to North Korea. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 722 - Mary Roach's Fuzz
25/10/2021 Duración: 30minMary Roach talks to Neil about house-breaking bears and monkey muggers in her new book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 721 - Alexandra Kleeman's Something New Under The Sun
18/10/2021 Duración: 32minAlexandra Kleeman talks to Neil about her latest novel Something New Under The Sun. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 720 - Jackie Higgins' Sentient
11/10/2021 Duración: 32minJackie Higgins talks to Neil about what the amazing senses of animals from the cheetah to the octopus can tell us about our own senses in her new book Sentient. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 719 - Sebastian Faulks' Snow Country
04/10/2021 Duración: 28minBirdsong author Sebastian Faulks talks to Neil about his latest novel Snow Country, set in Austria between the wars, the second novel of an Austrian trilogy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 718 - Geoff Dyer's SEE/SAW
27/09/2021 Duración: 31minGeoff Dyer talks to Neil about SEE/SAW his latest collection of essays on looking at photographs. Yes we talk about lots of photographs on an audio podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 717 - Travis Elborough's Through The Looking Glasses
23/09/2021 Duración: 29minCultural critic Travis Elborough talks to Neil about the history an cultural impact of spectacles in his latest book Through The Looking Glasses. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 716 - Lauren Groff's Matrix
20/09/2021 Duración: 28minLauren Groff returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her latest novel Matrix, a meticulously recreated historical fiction set in a 12th century abbey. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 715 - Julianne Pachico's The Anthill
16/09/2021 Duración: 26minJulianne Pachico talks to Neil about her Colombia set debut novel The Anthill. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 714 - Joyce Carol Oates' Breathe
13/09/2021 Duración: 28minJoyce Carol Oates talks to Neil about her latest novel Breathe, "a memoir that has been reimagined as a work of fiction" about grief. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 713 - Ece Temelkuran's Together
09/09/2021 Duración: 40minEce Temelkuran returns to Little Atoms to tell Padraig about Together: Ten Choices for a Better Now, the sequel to the global hit How To Lose A Country. Ece discusses how criticism replaced action, the role of the exile, and the radical proposition of trust. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 712 - Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees
06/09/2021 Duración: 28minElif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 54 languages. Shafak's last novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize. She talks to Neil about her latest novel The Island of Missing Trees, set in Cyprus during the partition and contemporary London, and featuring a rather unusual narrator. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 711 - Stephen Walker's Beyond
30/08/2021 Duración: 43minStephen Walker talks to Neil about the 60th annversary of Yuri Gagarin's incredible journey into space in his new book Beyond. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 710 - Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot
26/08/2021 Duración: 29minJean Hanff Korelitz talks to Neil about her latest novel The Plot, which centers around the literary world and the contested ownership of the right to tell a story. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 709 - Julian Sancton's Madhouse at the End of the Earth
23/08/2021 Duración: 29minJulian Sancton on his new book Madhouse at the End of the Earth, and incredible survival story of an ill-fated Antarctic expedition. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 708 - Laura Lippman's Dream Girl
19/08/2021 Duración: 27minLaura Lippman talks to Neil about the gentrification of Baltimore and using elements of the horror genre in her new novel Dream Girl, and of writing about herself in her essay collection My Life as a Villainess. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 707 - Brandy Schillace's Mr Humble & Dr Butcher
16/08/2021 Duración: 31minBrandy Schillace tells Neil the incredible story of Dr Robert White and his quest to perform the first head transplant. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 706 - Michael Spitzer's The Musical Human
09/08/2021 Duración: 28minMichael Spitzer talks to Neil about his new history of the world through the evolution of music, The Musical Human. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 705 - Alice Bell's Our Biggest Experiment
02/08/2021 Duración: 35minAlice Bell talks to Neil about her history of climate change, Our Biggest Experiment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Little Atoms 704 - Karl Deisseroth's Connections
26/07/2021 Duración: 29minNeil talks to optogenetics pioneer Karl Deisseroff about the work of his Stanford lab, and about his new book Connections: A Story of Human Feeling. Also contains Karl's wind-chimes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.