Category - radio 4

Newspaper launches alternative Thought for the Day

staff writers — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:20:39 +0000

The Guardian has today launched an alternative to the BBC’s long running Thought for the Day slot, broadcast at 7.50am in the morning on Radio 4.

50 years of Today

Simon Barrow — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:00:07 +0000

BCC Radio 4's flagship Today programme was officially fifty years old on 28 October 2007. How could we not send our congratulations?

Heathrow protests, Indian independence and Mahatma Gandhi, BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day, 15 August 2007

Press Office — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:27:31 +0100

Jonathan Bartley looks at the noble tradition of nonviolent civil disobedience includin

Losing our (radio) religion?

Simon Barrow — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:39:59 +0100

Simon Barrow suggests that how the churches see their engagement with culture, including spaces like the BBC's Thought for The Day, is shaped by the question about how God has been turned into an artefact under Christendom.

Wider range of voices called for in BBC’s beliefs radio slot

staff writers — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:26:29 +0100

BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day reflection spot could be opened up to the non-religious as well as the religious, argues one of its Christian contributors. Jonathan Bartley says it can help people to listen to one another better.

April Fool ... and a matter of loyalty

Jonathan Bartley — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:49:51 +0100

Today is April 1st, and traditionally known as April Fools Day in the UK, it's the day when people play jokes on one another.