Thought for the Day
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Thought for the Day
Reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news.
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246 episodes
Reverend Roy Jenkins
At last, a few showers. They’ve never been more welcome in this strange, uncomfortable, record-breaking summer. Day after day of sunshine, held fit...
Mona Siddiqui
What does it mean to erase a woman? You don't have to kill her. You can simply make her invisible. Tell her she can’t get a higher education, she can’...
The Rev Dr Michael Spence
Good morning.
I have spent about half my life in England and half in Australia. Watching the television news over the past few weeks has been s...
Vishvapani - A member of the Triratna Buddhist Order
Good morning.
I’ve lived in Wales for the best part of two decades and slowly felt less of an outsider. But last week I found myself in deepest...
Dr Rachel Mann
Good morning. In a twist I had not anticipated, it would appear that for some young people at least, digital cameras and wired earphones are back. The...
Michael Hurley
Good morning.
You’re listening to this, so the chances are you’re not on holiday. You may be enjoying a staycation and devoted to early-morning...
Mona Siddiqui
Good morning. August is the month of exam results and education is in the news again. Each year, young people find themselves at the centre of debates...
Mark Vernon
'Good morning.
“August angst” has begun. The phrase describes the stress caused by psychotherapists taking their summer break over the month beg...
Catherine Pepinster
Good morning,
If you’re feeling in need of a little nostalgia for the 1980s, then the film, Wham! 10 Days in China that opened in cinemas this w...
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg
Good Morning,
‘Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people:’ these beautiful words from Isaiah open the Seven Weeks of Consolation which begin now, and le...
Rev Dr Giles Fraser
The stunningly beautiful goddess Calypso offers Odysseus something that you might think no human being could ever refuse: never to age and never to di...
Vishvapani - A member of the Triratna Buddhist Order
Good morning.
This week France's parliament approved a bill banning social media access for children under fifteen. They can still use messagin...
The Right Reverend Dr David Walker
Good morning.
Like millions of others, I stayed up late on Saturday, watching the England men’s team play Norway. It’s actually the first live g...
Rabbi Charley Baginsky
Good Morning.
The Government recently published its draft Bill to ban abusive conversion practices that aim to change someone sexual orientation...