Little Atoms Acast

Philip Hoare returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about his fascination with Albrecht Dürer, and Dürer's fascination with painting a whale in his new book Albert & The Whale.
 
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Helen Scales returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about exploring the deep oceans, how creatures survive the great depths, and how human activity threatens even the deepest places in her new book The Brilliant Abyss.
 
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Tom Higham talks to Neil about the hunt for the Denisovans, and our other hominid ancestors.
 
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Claire Fuller talks to Neil about her 2021 Women's Prize shortlisted fourth novel Unsettled Ground.
 
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Dr Cat Jarman talks to Neil about how an Indian Carnelian bead ends up in a Viking grave in Derbyshire, in her new history of the Vikings, River Kings.
 
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Una Mannion talks to Neil about her debut novel A Crooked Tree.
 
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