01 December 2006

Cindarellas of the sciencelitosphere

My friend James of New Tammany College sent me a link to a debate that was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday night, in the Night Waves programme.

"A panel of scientific and literary authors discuss how science and literary writing differ, and how they are the same, and the general project of expressing the human condition. The panel includes AS Byatt."
(Install the player if you don't already have it. Find Night waves, and choose WED.)
However, James warns, you only have a week before it is replaced by the next programme.
1 Dec 2006 14:38:22 | Science

The comments to this entry are closed.

NEXT POST
Ten good things-- well, four View From The Pundy House: Ten good things. Pundy writes: "I am, as you may have noticed, a gloomy old bastard. You probably think I sit here all day in the Pundy House muttering to myself about how awful life is. Well, I do actually." So as an antidote, he has tried to list ten good things that have happened to him in the past 12 months. I was impressed that he got up to seven. I'm going to have a go now and see how far I get (excluding vicarious pleasure at various children-related things). 1. Learnt blogging: encountered some nice bloggers and "delightful cross pollinators" 2. Got rid of ill-fitting wallpaper and had walls painted. (Not sure if this counts as Malcolm actually sorted it all -- I just enjoy the result.) 3. Read some good books. 4. Lost weight. I'm a bit stuck now. Anybody care to have a go?
PREVIOUS POST
Round in circles Adele Geras writes a nice article (Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - books: Happy Portico and the Chamber of Secrets) about a teenagers' question time at a private library (a private library! never heard of that before) in Manchester. An excerpt: "Then Melvin read from Sara's Face, his chilling novel about celebrity, beauty and surgery, I read a piece from Ithaka and then it was time for our questions. Someone wanted to know what the inspiration was for Melvin's The Baby And Fly Pie, and he told the boys about the Death Squads in Bolivia who used to shoot kids as though they were vermin, to stop them stealing from shops. You could almost feel the communal indrawn breath. I was asked about why I wrote Troy, and explained my view that women had been somewhat overlooked by Homer and that I'd felt the balance had to be redressed." I like that "somewhat overlooked". Adele Geras' books Troy, Ithaka and Secret Snow, Silent Snow are among Cathy's favourites. She's written many others, as you can see at the link. However, I had never thought any more about her apart from the fact that Cathy likes her books. The other day, in...

Maxine

Science editor who likes reading crime fiction

Search

Become a Fan

My Other Accounts

Recent Comments