Neil Denny is the producer and presenter of the Little Atoms Radio
Show and podcast.

Neil was the recipient of a Travelling Fellowship
from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, and in May 2012 he embarked
upon a month long, 6614 mile road trip across America. The aim of the
trip was to produce a series of podcasts which present a wide-ranging
overview of science and skepticism from an American perspective.

Driving from San Francisco to Boston and calling in at Phoenix, Santa
Fe, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York along the way, Neil recorded
39 interviews with scientists and science writers including Ann
Druyan, Leonard Susskind, Kip Thorne, Priya Natarajan, Paul Davies,
George Church, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Mary Roach, Edward Stone and Sara
Seager. He recorded interviews at some major sites of scientific
interest, including NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Los Alamos
National Laboratory, and The American Museum of Natural History. He
also spent a less scientific day visiting Kentucky’s Creation Museum.
 

With Michael Gove and the coalition approving new Steiner Schools to open under the Free School Programme, it is timely to look closely at the origins and beliefs of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of the occult movement of Anthroposophy. Steiner was a mystic who believed he had direct clairvoyant access to cosmic knowledge. As such he developed an esoteric belief system based on karma, reincarnation, astrology, homeopathy and gnomes. His visions gave insights into architecture, art, dance, agriculture, medicine, education, science and diet. His racial hierarchy of spiritual developmental resonated in Germany in the early 20th Century turning a personal belief into a worldwide movement. Today we find hundreds of anthroposphically inspired organisations in the UK alone: everything from Steiner Schools, Biodynamic farms to banks, pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies, charities and cheese makers.

Andy Lewis has been trying to lift the veil on the inner secrets of the movement and will discuss how this secretive movement has direct impact on public life.