Little Atoms

Little Atoms

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A Show about Ideas
Genre Talk & Culture
Running time 30 or 60 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language(s) English
Home station Resonance FM
Hosted by

Neil Denny

Past presenters Padraig Reidy
Richard Sanderson
Becky Hogge Anthony Burn
Stuart Clark
Helen Keen
Christine Ottery
Adam Rutherford
Dan Schreiber
Rebecca Watson

Richard Wilson
Created by Neil Denny
Richard Sanderson
Produced by Neil Denny
Recording studio Resonance FM Studios, Borough High Street, London Bridge
Air dates since 2 September 2005
Audio format FM Radio and MP3 Podcast
Website littleatoms.com
Podcast Little Atoms Podcast

Little Atoms is a website, podcast and magazine dedicated to ideas and culture. The radio show broadcast weekly from London on Resonance FM 104.4. It is hosted by Neil Denny. The website is edited by Padraig Reidy and Caroline Christie. The first edition of Little Atoms magazine launched in November 2015.

History

The radio show was conceived by Neil Denny and Richard Sanderson at a meeting in a pub beer garden in London Bridge on 7 July 2005. The first episode aired on 2 September 2005 and featured a panel of a scientist (Sid Rodrigues), physicist and ex-born again Christian (Norman Hansen) and a folklorist (Scott Wood), along with Neil Denny and Richard Sanderson as the show's hosts.[1][2] Richard Sanderson was also the producer of two previous incarnations radio shows on Resonance FM, "Sanderson's Alcove", which ran from February 2005 to July 2005 and "Baggage Reclaim" which ran from 2003 to 2005.[3] Little Atoms is regarded as the first "rationalist" radio show in the UK and one of the first podcasts; with only the JREF's "Internet Audio Show", Rick Wood's Audiomartini, Skepticality and The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe preceding it.

Little Atoms was the official podcast of The Skeptic magazine until 2011.[4][5]

Website

The website www.LittleAtoms.com launched on 16 January 2015. It is updated daily with a mixture of news and features, as well as hosting the weekly podcast and the archive of over 400 episodes.

Magazine

Little Atoms's first print magazine launched in November 2015. It features a mixture of edited podcast interviews and original articles by writers including Jonathan Meades, Fergal Keane, Nick Cohen, Suzanne Moore, and more. It is designed by Wild Bill and Crazy Dave, and features illustrations by Jean Jullien.

Awards

Praise for Little Atoms

Little Atoms is frequently cited as one of the UK's top podcasts. In July 2015, Miranda Sawyer, presenter of BBC Radio 4's In Pod We Trust, praised Little Atoms, writing "[Neil] Denny’s modesty and well-informed interest enriches Little Atoms, and there are loads of shows to choose from (the As alone include Adam Curtis, Alex Cox and Aleks Krotoski). It has recently expanded into an online magazine, packed with quirky, funny, odd features."

Esquire magazine's Andrew Harrison described the podcast as "engaging, irreverent and unashamedly intellectual", making "Radio 4's Front Row sound like the E! Channel"

Fergal Keane described LittleAtoms.com as "a thoughtful site" with "Lots to provoke intelligent discussion"

Notable guests

References

  1. Wood, Scott. "South East London Folklore Society". Retrieved 25 October 2009
  2. Sherine, Ariane (2009). The Atheist's Guide to Christmas. London: The Friday Project. pp. 293–299. ISBN 978-0-00-732261-9.
  3. "Sanderson's Alcove Website".
  4. Redmond, Camilla (15 October 2009). "Radio catch-up: A Good Read, Resonance FM and Cerys Matthews". The Guardian.
  5. Marshall, Ben (27 February 2007). "Weekly web trawl: ephemera, anger and smut". The Guardian.
  6. "Web awards shortlist - Best podcast". Institute of Physics.
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