Thought for the Day
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Thought for the Day is a short religious radio programme, broadcast as part of the Today programme on the BBC's Radio 4 at around 7:45 am every weekday morning (BBC 2005). Notable current contributors to the 2 minute 45 seconds slot include Anne Atkins, Lionel Blue, Alan Billings, Tom Butler, Rhidian Brook, Brian Draper, Giles Fraser, Richard Harries, Roy Jenkins, James Jones, Clifford Longley, Rob Marshall, Colin Morris, Indarjit Singh, Elaine Storkey, Antony Sutch, Angela Tilby, Jonathan Sacks, Mona Siddiqui and Rowan Williams.
In 2002 102 notable people put their name to a letter to the BBC governors, drawn up by the British Humanist Association, the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association. This protested that the slot was only available to religious views. As a consequence Professor Richard Dawkins from Oxford University was given a two-and-a-half minute slot to give an atheist view but this was not within the Thought for the Day piece. The BBC commented it wanted to keep this a unique offering of a faith perspective within a news programme.
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- BBC (2005), Religion & Ethics - Thought For The Day, 2005-05-11
- Wembley Observer (1985), "Bubbly Beatrice is just the ticket", 1985-09-19
- Atheist gives Thought for the Day BBC, August 2002
