"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring". - Carl Sagan

" Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact". - Thomas Huxley

Little Atoms is produced and presented by Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy and broadcast every Friday from 19:00 to 19:30 GMT on Resonance 104.4FM.

Little Atoms is a live talk show about ideas. Each show features a guest from the worlds of science, journalism, politics, academia, human rights or the arts in conversation.

If the show has a dominant and recurring theme, then it coalesces around the ideas of the Enlightenment, by which we mean freedom of expression, free inquiry, empirical rationalism, scepticism, the scientific method, secular humanism and liberal democracy. These ideas find their antithesis in superstition, religious fundamentalism, fanaticism, medievalism, totalitarianism, censorship and conspiracy theory.

Our guests bring ideas that are challenging, sometimes controversial, often polemical, but always interesting.