<p>Daniel Lavelle is an Orwell Prize-winning freelance feature writer from Manchester. His first book, <em>Down and Out</em>, was published in 2022 and won a Royal Society of Literature award for non-fiction writing. He has covered topics such as mental health, homelessness, and culture for the <em>Guardian</em> (for whom he co-authored the series ‘The Empty Doorway’), <em>New</em> <em>Statesman</em> and the <em>Independent</em>. He received the <em>Guardian</em>’s Hugo Young award for an opinion piece on his experience of homelessness. ‘The Empty Doorway’ won Feature of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2019 and was nominated for the same award at the National Press Awards 2020. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book <em>Chasing Aliens: Faith and Conspiracy in the UFO Heartlands.</em></p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>