'A daily taste of eternity in the midst of time'

BBC Radio 4 staple Thought for the Day has been running for 50 years, aiming to capture the mood of the country and speak to it in a way that reaches people of all faiths and none.

Take a tour of half a century of daily reflections from some of our most prominent and insightful thinkers, including Pope Benedict XVI, Desmond Tutu and Mona Siddiqui. Covering our changing attitudes to sexuality, science, politics, national life, international relations and more, Thought for the Day charts the constant evolution of British society from its uniquely timeless perspective.

Christine Morgan began work on Thought for the Day in 1987 and took over as Editor in 2008 and continued to be responsible for the slot when she later became Head of Religion & Ethics in 2010. In all she worked on it for 33 years, until leaving the BBC in 2021.