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On The Radar with Julia GrayAuthor: Andersen Press
On the rADAr with Julia Gray is a new mini podcast series celebrating women who are doing extraordinary work in science. Author and musician Julia Gray will be talking to guests about their ambitions, inspirations, ground-breaking work, and the legacy that has been left behind by pioneers such as Ada Lovelace.The podcast is being released to celebrate the publication of Julia Grays new novel, I, Ada: Ada Lovelace: Rebel. Genius. Visionary, a witty and absorbing portrayal of the tumultuous teenage years of Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician who is considered to be the worlds first computer programmer. Available in paperback 3 September 2020. Head to https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/athomeyalc-2020-ya-samplers/ to read the first two chapters.Julia Gray is a writer and singer-songwriter. Her debut book The Otherlife was longlisted for the Branford Boase Award and nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and her second book, Little Liar was shortlisted for CrimeFests Best Crime Novel for Young Adults 2019. Julia studied Classics at UCL and has a diploma in Children's Literature and an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, for which she received the Sophie Warne Fellowship. She has released three albums with the trip-hop/jazz collective Second Person, and more recently two solo albums. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Final Episode: Timandra Harkness
Episode 6
Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
In our final episode of On the rADAr with Julia Gray, Julia is joined by BBC Radio 4's Timandra Harkness, whose career has taken her from presenting documentaries, to performing comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and to publishing a book on Big Data. In today's episode, recorded live at the Richmond Lit Fest, Julia and Timandra discuss what Big Data is, how useful it can be, what Ada Lovelace would have thought of it, and how data played a part in the 2016 US Presidential Election. Timandra Harkness is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a presenter of BBC Radio 4 documentaries including Divided Nation and the FutureProofing series, author, and event speaker. Her first book, Big Data: Does Size Matter? was published in June 2016 by Bloomsbury Sigma. You can follow Timandra on Twitter @BigDataBook and @TimandraHarkness. On the rADAr with Julia Gray is a fortnightly podcast series produced with Andersen Press, to celebrate the publication of Julia's new novel, I, Ada: Ada Lovelace: Rebel. Genius. Visionary, a witty and absorbing portrayal of the tumultuous teenage years of Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician who is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer.Now available in paperback. Head to https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/athomeyalc-2020-ya-samplers/ to read the first two chapters.Produced by Jonathon Moore and Julia GrayMixed and edited by Jonathon MooreMusic by Second Person Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
