Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Nima Arkani-Hamed(part 2). This is the second part of Graham’s interview with Nima Arkani-Hamed, recorded at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Here, Nima is in brilliant form as he recalls how he fell in love with scattering amplitudes – aptly described by the theoretician Lance Dixon as ‘the most perfect microscopic structures in the known universe.’

Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.

https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Michael Green. Michael Green is one of the pioneers of the string framework. In collaboration with the Caltech theorist John Schwarz, he made a crucial breakthrough that led in 1984 to the what became known as the First String Revolution.

Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.

https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Edward Witten. Edward Witten is widely regarded as the pre-eminent theoretical physicist of the past four decades. Based at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he has made dozens of path-breaking contributions to both physics and mathematics.

Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.

https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Val Gibson. Val Gibson is a leading experimental particle physicist and is head of the high energy physics research group at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University Cambridge. She is a prominent member of one of the teams of experimenters at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012.

Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.

https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Simon Schaffer. Simon Schaffer is not only a leading historian of science but also a great teacher. He is without peer in his ability to illuminate how thinking about thinking about the natural world developed into our modern understanding of physics, often in ways unknown to most physicists today.

Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.

https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Sir Michael Atiyah. In an interview with Graham last November, Sir Michael Atiyah described how he became a ‘quasi-physicist. Ten weeks later, Atiyah was dead. He was one of the most accomplished mathematicians of the past century: no one had done more in the past decades to discover close links between pure mathematics and fundamental physics. Undoubtedly a great mind, he was also an indomitable spirit.

Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.

https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with leading theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, who gave Graham an inspiring interview about the mysterious harmony between pure mathematics and fundamental physics. First of a two-part interview.

Based on Graham Farmelo's book The Universe Speaks in Numbers.

https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571321803-the-universe-speaks-in-numbers.html

An extract from the incredible audiobook interpretation of the Sunday Times top ten bestselling novel Lanny by Max Porter, read by a cast of narrators.

*Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller*

*Shortlisted for Costa Book Awards 2018*

'The best memoir I've ever read.' Dolly Alderton

An audiobook extract from Viv Albertine's acclaimed autobiography To Throw Away Unopened, read by Jasmine Blackborrow.

Singer-songwriter, author and activist Billy Bragg reads from his new book The Three Dimensions of Freedom, in which he argues the urgent case for accountability. This is an extract from the audiobook of The Three Dimensions of Freedom, which is out now.