Simon Singh on Little Atoms
Science writer Simon Singh talks to Index on Censorship news editor Padraig Reidy about his difficulties with the English libel courts on the Little Atoms radio show.
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Interview: Jonathan Heawood
English PEN director Jonathan Heawood was interviewed on the Little Atoms radio show last week by, er, me, and co-host Neil Denny. We discussed the origins of PEN, perceived limits of free expression, and the changes in censorship from a state-based to community-based phenomenon.
You can listen to the 30-minute interview here.
Kenan Malik on race and Rushdie
Index on Censorship contributor Kenan Malik was a guest on the Little Atoms radio show last Friday.
You can listen to the interview here.
Kenan Malik on Little Atoms
My colleague Neil Denny and I will be interviewing Kenan Malik on the Little Atoms radio show tonight. You can hear it live on Resonance FM at 7pm, or download next week from the Little Atoms site. We’re hoping to discuss Kenan’s last book, Strange Fruit, and the upcoming anniversary of Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie, but being a pro free expression programme, who knows where we’ll end up. What we do know is that it will be interesting. Kenan is one of our foremost thinkers on free expression, and is always worth listening to.
Fortunately, Kenan is also a friend of, and frequent contributor to, Index on Censorship. You can read his latest article from the new issue of Index on Censorship, in which he explains how Salman Rushdie’s critics lost the battle, but won the war against free speech here (pdf).