Today programme host: ‘Thought for the Day’ should have secular voices
Prominent BBC journalist and host of the Today programme Evan Davis has questioned the continuing absence of non-religious voices on the BBC’s preeminent slot considering moral issues.Speaking to the Independent, Mr Davis said of the Thought for the Day slot: "I think there's a very serious debate about whether the spot – which I would keep – might give space to what one might call 'serious and spiritually minded secularists'. I don't think "Thought for the Day" has to only be people of the cloth." Mr Davis has previously described the bias in favour of religious contributors as "