On this week’s show, Neil Denny and guest host Adam Rutherford talk to Ian McEwan.
Ian McEwan has written two collections of stories, First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets, and 12 novels including The Cement Garden, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Enduring Love, Atonement and Saturday. He won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998. Ian’s latest novel is Solar, to be published by Jonathan Cape on the 18th March 2010.
Adam Rutherford has a PhD in genetics, is an editor at Nature, hosts the Nature podcast, writes for the Guardian, fronted the BBC4 series Cell, and recently hosted a documentary about morality on Radio 4.
Join Neil and Adam on Friday evening at 19.00 on Resonance 104.4FM in London or via the live feed at www.resonancefm.com worldwide.
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.
Join us on Friday evening at 19.00 on Resonance 104.4FM in London, or via the Resonance FM live feed worldwide.
On this week’s show, Neil Denny and special guest presenter Marcus Chown talk to Stuart Clark.
Stuart Clark is one of the UK’s most widely read astronomy journalists. A former editor of Astronomy Now, He has a PhD in astrophysics and until 2001 was director of public astronomy education at the University of Hertfordshire. In 2001 the Independent ranked him alongside Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, as one of the ‘stars’ of British astrophysics teaching. A regular contributor to such magazines as New Scientist and BBC Focus, he is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Galaxy. But it was his first work of narrative nonfiction, The Sun Kings, that established him as a popular science writer par excellence.
Marcus Chown’s first book, Afterglow of Creation, has just been re-published in paperback by Faber & Faber.
Join us on Friday evening, 19th February at 19.00 to 19.30 on Resonance 104.4FM in London or via the live feed worldwide.
On this week’s show, Neil Denny and Rebecca Watson talk to Dr Karen James.
Dr Karen James is a postdoctoral research assistant in the Department of Botany of the Natural History Museum, working on the development of a DNA-based identification system for plant species. She also coordinated the museum’s Darwin bicentenary science campaign including a survey of the museum’s Darwin specimens and a Galapagos mockingbird conservation genetics project. She is the director of science for The HMS Beagle Trust which aims to build a modern seagoing version of HMS Beagle for scientific research, public engagement and learning.
Join us on Friday evening, 12th February at 19.00 to 19.30 on Resonance 104.4FM in London or via the live feed worldwide.
The news this week that The Lancet has retracted Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 paper claiming to have found a link between autism and the MMR vaccine is satisfying in the sense that the mills of science may grind exceeding slow but they grind exceeding small. Science – the process of peer review, of establishing the truth by attempting to replicate results independently – works.
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Neil | Thursday, 18 March, 2010
