Thought for the Day is a daily scripted "reflection from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news",^[1] broadcast as part of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 at around 7.45 each Monday to Saturday morning. Nowadays lasting 2 minutes and 45 seconds, it is a successor to the more substantial five-minute religious sequence Ten to Eight (1965–1970) and, before that, Lift Up Your Hearts, which was first broadcast five mornings a week on the BBC Home Service from December 1939, initially at 7.30, though soon moved to 7.55. Today, sometimes referred to as the Today programme to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4s long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, which is now broadcast from 6am to 9am from Monday to Friday and from 7am to 9am on Saturdays. ... old Radio 4 logo BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... The BBC Home Service was the original name for Radio 4 and was on the air from 1939 until 30 September 1967. ...

Notable contributors to the slot have included Anne Atkins, Jonathan Bartley, Alan Billings, Lionel Blue, Rhidian Brook, Tom Butler, Brian Draper, Giles Fraser, Richard Harries, Roy Jenkins, James Jones, Clifford Longley, Rob Marshall, Colin Morris, Jonathan Sacks, Mona Siddiqui, Indarjit Singh, Elaine Storkey, Antony Sutch, Angela Tilby, and Rowan Williams. Anne Atkins is a Christian author, broadcaster and vicar’s wife. ... Jonathan Bartley (born London, 1971) is the founder and co-director of Ekklesia, a Christian think tank based in London, and a religious commentator who appears regularly on UK radio and television programmes. ... Canon Dr Alan Billings is a Church of England priest. ... Lionel Blue (born 6 February 1930) is a British Reform rabbi and broadcaster. ... The Rt Revd Dr Thomas Frederick Butler (born 1940) is the ninth Bishop of Southwark. ... Brian G. Draper is a British brass band musician and conductor. ... Reverend Dr. Giles Fraser is the vicar of St. ... The Rt Revd Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, giving a speech in 2004. ... Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (November 11, 1920 – January 5, 2003) was a British politician and a prominent Labour Member of Parliament in the 1960s and 1970s, and founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). ... James Suart Jones (born 18 August 1948) is a British Anglican clergy and the current Bishop of Liverpool. ... Rob Marshall is a director. ... Colin Morris was an English Football Player born 22 May 1953. ... Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks (born 1948, London) is the Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue, the United Kingdoms main body of Orthodox synagogues. ... Professor Mona Siddiqui is a British Muslim academic. ... Indarjit Singh (sometimes Inderjit Singh), OBE, (1932, Rawalpindi, india - ) is a British journalist and broadcaster, editor of the Sikh Messenger and widely known as a frequent presenter of the Thought for the Day segment on BBC Radio 4s Today Programme, and BBC Radio 2s Pause for Thought. ... Elaine Storkey (born 1 October 1943 in Wakefield, United Kingdom) is a lecturer, writer, broadcaster. ... For the English boxer, see Rowan Anthony 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 available only to religious views. As a consequence, Professor Richard Dawkins from Oxford University was given a two-and-a-half minute slot to deliver a reflection from an atheist viewpoint, although this was not broadcast in the Thought for the Day slot itself.^[2] The BBC commented that it wanted to keep Thought for the Day a unique offering of a faith perspective within an otherwise entirely secular news programme. Also see: 2002 (number). ... The Board of Governors of the BBC is a group of twelve people who together regulate the BBC and represent the interests of the public, in particular those of viewers and listeners. ... The British Humanist Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes Humanism. ... The National Secular Society is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes secularism. ... The Rationalist Press Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom, founded on 26 May 1899 to promote freedom of thought and inquiry and the principles of rationalism, defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a system of philosophy and ethics... Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. ... For information about the band, see Atheist (band). ... For other uses, see Faith (disambiguation). ...

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