Little Atoms

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.{{cite web | url=http://members.lycos.co.uk/skitster/newpage4.html | title=South East London Folklore Society | last=Wood | first=Scott | access-date=25 October 2009 | archive-date=14 September 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914200005/http://members.lycos.co.uk/skitster/newpage4.html | url-status=live }} Retrieved 25 October 2009{{cite book| last = Sherine| first = Ariane | authorlink = Ariane Sherine | title = The Atheist's Guide to Christmas | publisher = The Friday Project | location = London | year = 2009 | pages = 293–299 | isbn = 978-0-00-732261-9}} 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.{{cite web | url=http://members.lycos.co.uk/rationalist/newpage14.html | title=Sanderson's Alcove Website | access-date=21 November 2009 | archive-date=6 September 2004 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040906083840/http://members.lycos.co.uk/rationalist/newpage14.html | url-status=live }} 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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

Little Atoms was the official podcast of The Skeptic magazine until 2011.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2009/oct/15/radio-catch-up-resonance-good-read | title=Radio catch-up: A Good Read, Resonance FM and Cerys Matthews | last=Redmond | first=Camilla | work=The Guardian | date=15 October 2009 | access-date=12 December 2016 | archive-date=24 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424075955/http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2009/oct/15/radio-catch-up-resonance-good-read | url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2007/feb/27/weeklywebtrawlpunkexplosio | last=Marshall | first=Ben | title=Weekly web trawl: ephemera, anger and smut | work=The Guardian | date=27 February 2007 | access-date=12 December 2016 | archive-date=16 September 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916144332/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2007/feb/27/weeklywebtrawlpunkexplosio | url-status=live }}

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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

• Nominated by physics.org web awards in the Best podcast category 2010{{cite web|url=http://www.physics.org/toplistdetail.asp?id=15|title=Web awards shortlist – Best podcast|publisher=Institute of Physics|access-date=28 October 2010|archive-date=26 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101026144226/http://www.physics.org/toplistdetail.asp?id=15|url-status=live}}

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."{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jul/31/the-10-best-holiday-podcasts|title=The 10 best holiday podcasts|last=Sawyer|first=Miranda|date=31 July 2015|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 May 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=12 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012132357/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jul/31/the-10-best-holiday-podcasts|url-status=live}}

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".{{cite web |url=http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/article/5508/21-essential-podcasts/ |title=21 Essential Podcasts To Download Today – Esquire |website=www.esquire.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111074918/http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/article/5508/21-essential-podcasts/ |archive-date=11 January 2014}}

Fergal Keane described LittleAtoms.com as "a thoughtful site" with "lots to provoke intelligent discussion".{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

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• {{Official website|http://www.littleatoms.com}}
• [http://blog.colinmarshall.org/?p=2108 An interview with Neil Denny] on Notebook on Cities and Culture

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