Little Atoms

Little Atoms 431 - Dan Richards and Cal Flyn

03 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Cal Flyn is a freelance journalist from the Highlands of Scotland. She has been a reporter for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph, and a contrib...

Little Atoms 430 - Alex Marshall’s Republic or Death

27 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Marshall is a journalist who writes about music and politics. He has written previously for the BBC, Guardian and New York Times. Alex is the aut...

Little Atoms 429 - Miranda Sawyer's Out Of Time

20 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Miranda Sawyer is a journalist and broadcaster. Formerly of Smash Hits and Select, she currently writes features and radio criticism for the Observer,...

Little Atoms 428 - Marcus Du Sautoy's What We Cannot Know

13 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Marcus Du Sautoy is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. In 2008 he was appointed to Oxford University’s prestigious professorship ...

Little Atoms 427 - Louise Dougty's Black Water

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Louise Doughty is the author of seven novels, most recently the top 5 bestseller Apple Tree Yard, which was chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club, s...

Little Atoms 426 - Francis Spufford's Golden Hill

29 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Francis Spufford was born in 1964. He is the author of five highly-praised books of non-fiction, most frequently described by reviewers as either 'biz...

Little Atoms 425 - Kate Moore's Radium Girls

22 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Moore is a Sunday Times bestselling writer with more than a decade's experience in writing across varying genres, including memoir and biography ...

Little Atoms 424 - John Wray's Lost Time Accidents

14 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

John Wray is the author of The Right Hand of Sleep, which won a Whiting Writers' Award, Canaan's Tongue and the critically-acclaimed Lowboy. He was ch...

Little Atoms 423 - Eagles of podcasting!

08 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live at the Stoke Newington Literary festival, we gathered together the crème of UK literary podcasting and put them on the same stage, and ...

Little Atoms 422 - Lucy Jones and Foxes Unearthed

01 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lucy Jones is a nature writer and journalist based in London. She was Deputy Editor at NME.com and previously worked at the Daily Telegraph. Her writi...

Little Atoms 421 - Sean Carroll and the Big Picture

25 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech in Pasadena, California, where he researches the foundations of quantum mechanics, the arrow of tim...

Little Atoms 420 - Katie Roiphe's Violet Hour

18 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Katie Roiphe is the author of several books, including The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism, Uncommon Arrangements, and In Praise of Messy Lives....

Little Atoms 419 - Duncan Campbell's We’ll All Be Murdered in Our Beds!

11 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Duncan Campbell is a former crime correspondent of the Guardian, former chairman of the Crime Reporters’ Association and winner of the Bar Council’...

Little Atoms 418 - Rowan Moore's Slow Burn City

04 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and ...

London election special #3 - housing

03 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Neicho speaks to Ben Judah, Heather Kennedy and Martin Skinner about housing, the hottest issue of the London mayoral campaign.Ben Judah is a jou...

London election special #2 - Youth, diversity and equality

28 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In our second London mayoral election special, Josh Niecho and his panel discuss the issues affecting London's young and diverse community.Featuring:K...

Little Atoms 417 - Stephen Trombley's Wise Words

27 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Trombley's most recent books are Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World (2012) and A Short History of Western Thought (2011). For 15 years...

London election special part 1 - transport infrastructure and environment

26 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Jan leads the City Economics team at engineering and consultancy firm Arup and is a columnist for City AMAlex Ingram is a cycling campaigner...

Little Atoms 416 - Steve Silberman and Sarah Moss

22 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The last of our three shows for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize, with shortlisted authors Steve Silberman & Sarah Moss. The Wellcome Book Prize 2016 winn...

Little Atoms 415 - Suzanne O'Sullivan and Amy Liptrot

20 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at The Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical ...

Little Atoms 414 - Cathy Rentzenbrink & Alex Pheby

13 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The first of three shows for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize, with shortlisted authors Cathy Rentzenbrink & Alex Pheby.Cathy Rentzenbrink was born in Cor...

Little Atoms 413 - Molly Crabapple and Paul Mason

06 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A recording of the first Little Atoms live event at Waterstones Piccadilly in which we host the launch of Mollly Crabapple’s book Drawing Blood. An ...

Little Atoms 412 - The Penderyn Music Book Prize special

30 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Penderyn Music Book Prize is organised by Richard Thomas, founder of the Laugharne Weekend Festival, and is the only UK-based book prize specifica...

Littlle Atoms 411 - Ioan Grillo and Gangster Warlords

23 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America since 2001 for international media including Time magazine, Reuters, CNN, the Associated Press, the Houston ...

Little Atoms 410 - DJ Taylor and The Prose Factory

16 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

DJ Taylor is the author of two acclaimed biographies, Thackerary (1999), and Orwell: The Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize in 2003. He ha...

Little Atoms special: Andrew Solomon and Marion Coutts

11 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

For the last two years Little Atoms has partnered with the Wellcome Book Prize, broadcasting interviews with the shortlisted authors. We’ll be doing...

Little Atoms 409 Harry Parker Andrew Hankinson

09 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Harry Parker grew up in Wiltshire. He was educated at Falmouth College of Art and University College London. He joined the British Army when he was 23...

Little Atoms 408 - Jo Marchant and the science of mind over body

02 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist based in London. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew's Hospital ...

Little Atoms 407: Maria Konnikova and The Confidence Game

24 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Maria Konnikova was born in Moscow, Russia and came to the United States when she was four years old. She is a contributing writer for The New Yorker,...

Little Atoms 406 - Kathryn Harkup and A is for Arsenic

17 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a PhD then a postdoc at the University of York before realising that talking, writing and de...

Little Atoms 405 - Helen Fitzgerald's Viral

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Helen FitzGerald is the bestselling author of Dead Lovely (2007) and nine other adult and young adult thrillers, including My Last Confession (2009), ...

Little Atoms 310 – Matthew Kneale & Suzanne Moore

05 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Kneale studied Modern History at Oxford University. He is the author of several novels, including English Passengers which won the Whitbread A...

Little Atoms 311 – Philip Hoare & Deborah Orr

04 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Hoare is the author of seven works of non-fiction, including an acclaimed biography of Noel Coward, and Leviathan or, The Whale, which won the ...

Little Atoms 316 – Rana Dasgupta & Sarah Ditum

03 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Rana Dasgupta won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book for his debut novel Solo. He is also the author of a collection of urban folkta...

Little Atoms 404 - The Ministry of Nostalgia and Landscapes of Communism

03 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Owen Hatherley writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal, Architectural Review,Icon, The Guardian, The London Revi...

Little Atoms 312 – Is Music Journalism in a Critical Condition?

02 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A special edition of Little Atoms for Resonance FM’s fundraising week. Recorded live at The Slaughtered Lamb on 10th February 2014.Is Music Journali...

Little Atoms 304 – Aleks Krotoski & Matthew Sweet

01 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Aleks Krotoski is an academic and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. She is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Medi...

Little Atoms 319 – FutureEverything 2014 – James Bridle & Eleanor Saitta

29 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

James Bridle is a writer, artist, publisher and technologist usually based in London, UK. His work covers the intersection of literature, culture and ...

Little Atoms 322 – Irving Finkel & Lucianne Walkowicz

28 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Irving Finkel is an archaeologist and Assyriologist, currently Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Script, Languages and Cultures in the Departme...

Little Atoms 323 – FutureEverything – 65daysofstatic & The Space Lady

27 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Wolinski and Joe Shrewsbury are one half of 65daysofstatic, an instrumental band from Sheffield, as comfortable crashing samplers to mine glitche...

Little Atoms 403 - Tim Baker's Fever City

27 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Born into a showbiz milieu in Sydney, Tim Baker left Australia to travel in his early 20s and lived in Rome and Madrid before moving to Paris, where h...

Little Atoms 325 – FutureEverything 2014 – Alex Fleetwood & Anab Jain

26 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Fleetwood is the founder and director of Hide&Seek, a game design studio dedicated to inventing new kinds of play. Hide&Seek started life in 2007...

Little Atoms 336 – Olivia Laing & The Trip to Echo Spring

25 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Olivia Laing‘s first book, To the River, was a book of the year in the Evening Standard, Independent and Financial Times and was shortlisted for the...

Little Atoms 340 – Andy Miller & The Year of Reading Dangerously

22 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Miller is a reader, author and editor of books. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Times, the Telegraph, the Guardi...

Little Atoms 341 – Cara Hoffman & Be Safe I Love You

21 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Cara Hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed 2011 novel So Much Pretty. She grew up in northern Appalachia, where she dropped out of high sc...

Little Atoms 402: Lisa Randall and Francesca Kay

20 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, Neil Denny talks to Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall about her new book Dark Matter and The Dinosaurs, and th...

Little Atoms 343 – Lee Rourke & Vulgar Things

19 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lee Rourke is the author of the short story collection Everyday, and the novel The Canal, which won the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize in 2010. He ...

Little Atoms 401 - Kat Arney Herding Hemingway's Cats

13 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Following a doctorate and subsequent research career in genetics, Kat Arney is now Science Communications Manager for Cancer Research UK, where she tr...

From the archive - Christopher Hitchens

06 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview, recorded in Oxford ahead of the release of "God Is Not Great", Christopher Hitchens spoke to Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy about Ric...

Little Atoms 400 - Juliet Jacques

16 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Juliet Jacques is a freelance writer, best known for the Guardian’s “Transgender Journey”—the first time the gender reassignment process had b...

Little Atoms 399 - Lucy Inglis and Georgian London

09 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lucy Inglis is a historian, novelist, and occasional television presenter. In 2009 she created the Georgian London blog, which became the largest free...

Little Atoms 398. Peter Pomerantsev - Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

02 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Pomerantsev is an award-winning TV producer and a contributor to the London Review of Books. His writing has been published in the Financial Tim...

Little Atoms 397 - Jon Savage - 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded

18 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875 - 1945. He is the writer of the awa...

Litle Atoms 396 Max Porter: Grief Is The Thing With Feathers

11 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Max Porter is a senior editor at Granta. His first book Grief is the Thing With Feathers has been shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2015 and longli...

Little Atoms 395 – Hanya Yanagihara & Antony Loewenstein

05 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, Man Booker shortlisted novelist Hanya Yanagihara on A Little Life and journalist Antony Loewenstein on Disaster...

Little Atoms 394 – Zoe Lambert & Emma Jane Unsworth Little Atoms Live

07 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a Live Little Atoms event. Authors Emma Jane Unsworth and Zoe Lambert in conversation with Neil Denny at the International Anthony Burgess ...

Little Atoms 393 – Timothy Snyder & Black Earth

30 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University, and has written and edited a number of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books ...

Little Atoms 392 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 Three

23 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The last of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, ahead of the award ceremony on T...

Little Atoms 391 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 Two

16 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The second of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. This week Neil Denny talks wit...

Little Atoms 390 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 One

09 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The first of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. This week Neil Denny talks with...

Little Atoms 389 – Petina Gappah & The Book of Memory

02 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, An E...

Little Atoms 388 – John Higgs & Stranger Than We Can Imagine

26 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

John Higgs is the author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary, The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds, and ...

Little Atoms 387 – Michela Wrong & Borderlines

19 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Michela Wrong is a distinguished international journalist, and has worked as a foreign correspondent covering events across the African continent for ...

Little Atoms 386 – Stephen Grey & Dan Richards

12 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Grey is a journalist based in London, who writes mainly about national security issues. He is best known for breaking the international exclus...

Little Atoms 385 – Alok Jha & The Water Book

05 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Alok Jha is a journalist and broadcaster based in London. He is science correspondent for ITN and, before that, was science correspondent at the Guard...

Little Atoms 384 – Helen Scales & Spirals in Time

29 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Helen Scales is a marine biologist, a freelance researcher and broadcaster; she appears regularly on BBC Radio 4, Sky News and the BBC World Service, ...

Little Atoms 383 – Iain Sinclair – London Overground & Black Apples of Gower

22 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Iain Sinclair a poet, film-maker, essayist and the author of many acclaimed books, including Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize)...

Little Atoms 382 – Antony Beevor & Ardennes 1944

15 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, where he studied under John Keegan. A regular officer with the 11th Hussars, he left the Army ...

Little Atoms 381 – Dylan Evans & Andrew Mueller

08 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Little Atoms, Dylan Evans on The Utopia Experiment, and Andrew Mueller on his memoir It’s Too Late to Die Young Now. Dylan Evan...

Little Atoms 380 – Nell Zink & The Wallcreeper and Mislaid

01 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Nell Zink was born in 1964 in southern California and grew up in rural Virginia. She attended Stuart Hall School and the College of William and Mary, ...

Little Atoms 379 – Emma Jane Unsworth & Alex Hourston

24 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Emma Jane Unsworth is a journalist and won the Betty Trask Award for her novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Port...

Little Atoms 378 – Nick Lane & The Vital Question

17 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Lane is a biochemist in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London and leads the UCL Origins of Life Prog...

Little Atoms 377 – Joanna Biggs & Stevan Alcock

10 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's Little Atoms Podcast, Joanna Biggs on her book All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work, and Stevan Alcock on his novel Blood Relati...

Little Atoms 376 – Gavin Francis & Adventures in Human Being

03 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to Dr Gavin Francis about his latest book is Adventures in Human Being. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

Little Atoms 375 – Lynsey Addario & It’s What I Do

20 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's Little Atoms, Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on her Memoir It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and...

Little Atoms 374 – Brandy Schillace & Caitlin Doughty

13 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, two books about Death. Brandy Schillace on Death’s Summer Coat, and Caitlin Doughty on Smoke Gets in Your Eye...

Little Atoms 373 – Zoe Williams & Get it Together

06 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The day before the most uninspiring General Election in Decades, we talk to Zoe Williams about her new book Get it Together: Why We Deserve Better Pol...

Little Atoms 372 – Wellcome Book Prize 2105 Part Two

29 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Denny talks to two more shortlisted writers, Henry Marsh and Marion Coutts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 371 – Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Part One

22 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On Wednesday 29th April the winner of the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize will be announced. In the first of two special editions of Little Atoms, Neil Denny...

Little Atoms 370 – Christopher Bollen & Orient

15 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to New York writer Christopher Bollen about his new novel Orient. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Little Atoms 369 – Susan Pinker & Gary Wilson

08 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Little Atoms, Susan Pinker on her book The Village Effect, and Gary Wilson on his book Your Brain on Porn. Susan Pinker is a deve...

Little Atoms 368 – Andrew Scull & Madness in Civilization

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Scull is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego. He has previously taught at the Univers...

Little Atoms 367 – Mind’s Eye Interviews Five – Dennis Reuter

25 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Dennis Reuter is a New Horizons co-investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and the instrument scientist for Ralph, the New Horizons ...

Little Atoms 366 – Hannah Fry & Jon Ronson

18 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, Hannah Fry on The Mathematics of Love and Jon Ronson on his latest book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. Dr. H...

Little Atoms 365 – Salena Godden & Kate Hamer

11 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Little Atoms, two interviews. Neil Denny talks to Salena Godden about her memoir Springfield Road, and to Kate Hamer about her d...

Little Atoms 364 – FutureEverything 20 Special

04 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s Little Atoms is a special edition recorded at FutureEverything 20 in Manchester on 26th and 27th February 2015. The show features a lon...

Little Atoms 363 – Arthur I. Miller & Colliding Worlds

25 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur I. Miller is emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at University College London. He is the author of several acclaimed books,...

Little Atoms 362 – Mind’s Eye Interviews Four

18 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Late last year, Little Atoms took part in an audio installation, Mind’s Eye, which consisted of a number of interviews with scientists involved in c...

Little Atoms 361 – Greg Jenner & A Million Years in a Day

11 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Jenner is the Historical Consultant to CBBC’s multi-award winning Horrible Histories, Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry, and the various ...

Little Atoms 360 – David Stubbs & Future Days

04 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

David Stubbs joined the music magazine Melody Maker in 1986, where he worked for 12 years. His most famous creation, Mr Agreeable periodically reawake...

Little Atoms 359 – Edward Slingerland & Trying Not to Try

28 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Edward Slingerland is an internationally recognized expert in both early Chinese thought and the links between cognitive science and the humanities. H...

Little Atoms 358 – Johann Hari & Chasing the Scream

21 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Johann Hari is a journalist who has written for the New York Times, the LA Times, the Guardian,Le Monde, Slate, the New Republic and The Nation among ...

Little Atoms 357 – Ken Hollings & The Bright Labyrinth

14 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Hollings is a writer based in London. His work appears in a wide range of journals and publications, including The Wire, Sight and Sound, Strange ...

Little Atoms 356 – A QI Christmas Show

17 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The last Little Atoms of 2014, recorded at QI headquarters in somewhere in Covent Garden, with QI Head of Research James Harkin and the QI Elves – A...

Little Atoms 355 – Celeste Ng & Ben Okri

10 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Little Atoms, two prize-winning novelists. Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of...

Little Atoms 354 – Ben Goldacre & Eric Schlosser

26 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Goldacre is a doctor, academic, broadcaster and science writer who has made his name unpicking the evidence behind dodgy claims from journalists, ...

Little Atoms 353 – Rebecca Newberger Goldstein & Kenan Malik

19 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Little Atoms, two philosophical interviews: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton Univers...

Little Atoms 352 – David Flusfeder & Jeff Jackson

12 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Little Atoms, two novels that blur the boundaries between truth and Fiction. David Flusfeder was born in New Jersey but grew up in ...

Little Atoms 351 – Michael Brooks & At The Edge of Uncertainty

05 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Brooks is the author of the bestselling non-fiction titles 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense and Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Scie...

Little Atoms 350 – Marina Keegan & The Opposite of Loneliness

29 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Marina Keegan (1989 – 2012) was an author, journalist, playwright, poet, actress and activist, and for two years a research assistant to Harold ...