Category - radio 4

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10 Dec 2009

Conflict, morality and flashing red Santa hats

I am still chuckling about last night's Moral Maze on Radio 4. The programme is a bit of a bear pit.
9 Feb 2009

Newspaper launches alternative Thought for the Day

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.
31 Oct 2007

50 years of Today

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

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

Losing our (radio) religion?

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.
20 Apr 2007

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

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.
1 Apr 2007

April Fool ... and a matter of loyalty

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.