‘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 Gray’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. 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 CrimeFest’s 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.

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