Just a thought

Garry Otton (Letters, 28 December) complains that BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day slot is reserved for religious speakers. Just to clarify, these “religious speakers” do not represent the spectrum of religious opinion. Thought for the Day serves to sideline the views of most religious people, while promoting the vague platitudinous religion favoured by the BBC.

How’s this for a deal? Atheist speakers allowed on Thought for the Day in exchange for the BBC ceasing to saturating its entire programme output with blatant secular liberal bias?

Richard Lucas

Broomyknowe

Colinton, Edinburgh