" Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact". - Thomas Huxley
Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary film maker. He began his journalistic career as an award-winning columnist for Time Out. He also wrote the popular "Human Zoo" column for The Guardian and produced the BBC Radio 4 documentary Hotel Auschwitz. He also presents the late night Radio 4 series, Jon Ronson on... For Channel 4, Jon has made the acclaimed five part series the Secret Rulers of the World, multi award-winning Tottenham Ayatollah, New Klan, New York to California (A Great British Odyssey), Dr Paisley, I Presume, the four-part series Critical Condition, and the late-night chat show For The Love Of... For BBC2 he made the six part series The Ronson Mission. Now contributing regularly to The Guardian, Jon has previously written the books; Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats. His latest is Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness.
Jon has appeared on Little Atoms twice.
Interview one first broadcast on 14th October 2005.
Interview two first broadcast on 10th November 2006.