Adam Higginbotham: podcast appearances and interviews

Adam Higginbotham is a British journalist born in 1968. He has served as the U.S. correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and was the editor-in-chief of The Face. His writing has appeared as a contributing journalist for prominent publications including The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. Higginbotham is the author of Midnight in Chernobyl, published in 2019 by Simon & Schuster. The book provides an in-depth account of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and has been recognized with several awards including the 2020 William E. Colby Award for Military and Intelligence Writing and the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction. It was also named one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times. In 2024, Higginbotham published Challenger, a narrative recounting the events surrounding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. His work is noted for its detailed investigation and comprehensive storytelling of significant historical and scientific events.