On this week’s show Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy talk to writer Stephanie Merritt.
Stephanie Merritt was deputy literary editor of The Observer from 1998 – 2005 and is now a feature writer. She has contributed to a variety of newspapers and magazines as well as radio and television. She is the author of two novels, Gaveston (Faber, 2002) and Real (Faber, 2005), one non-fiction, The Devil Within, (Vermilion 2008) and the screenplay for Real, commissioned by Gabriel Byrne’s Plurabelle Films. She also curates the Talks and Debates programme at Soho Theatre. Stephanie’s latest book, written under the pseudonym S.J. Parris is Heresy, a historical murder mystery starring Giordano Bruno.
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On this week’s Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to Tom Standage.
Tom Standage is the business editor of The Economist. He started his career as the Science and Technology Editor at the Guardian, and has written several books which merge popular science and history including The Victorian Internet, The Neptune File, The Mechanical Turk. and A History of the World in 6 Glasses in which he explores a notion that six drinks in history — beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and cola — could be seen as technological catalysts in advancing culture. He says of his books “I think the right attitude to new technologies is to regard them with historically-informed scepticism. My approach is intended as a sort of antidote to the scourge of mindless product stories: when something new comes along, I like to point out that it isn’t new at all. This isn’t quite as gratuitous as it sounds; it is quite often possible to learn useful lessons from history, particularly the history of technology”
Tom’s latest book is An Edible History of Humanity, published in paperback by Atlantic in early March 2010. This is Tom’s second visit to Little Atoms.
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Stories in this week’s roundup include: the newly announced Jihad against Switzerland; the Secular Coalition for America’s meeting with the Obama administration; and a Danish newspaper’s apology for publishing cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad.
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It’s been an exciting week for the UK: A government committee is in the process of deciding the future relationship between homeopathy and the NHS; Simon Singh appeared in the Court of Appeal; and it was discovered that Noah’s ark was in fact, round.
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Discover the true meaning of Valentine’s Day, the latest initiatives of the JREF and Bill O’reilly’s skeptical side in this week’s roundup.
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Neil Thursday, 11 March, 2010
