A very welcome return to Little Atoms this week for Marcus Chown. Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. Marcus has written a number of popular science books, including The Magic Furnace, The Universe Next Door, The Never-ending Days of Being Dead and Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You. His latest book is We Need to Talk About Kelvin.

Join Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy at the usual time, 19.00 to 19.30 on Friday 23rd October. Tune in via Resonance 104.4FM in London or via the Resonance FM live feed elsewhere.

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