Author: David Wilkinson
This is a transcript of a Thought for the Day given by David Wilkinson on Boxing Day, 2025. The episode of the Today show on which it appeared was edited by Sir James Dyson. If,...
Image by NASA – Public Domain. Thirty years ago this week, the Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter and became the first to orbit an outer planet. It deployed a probe which entered the Jovian...
This is the transcript of the Revd Prof David Wilkinson’s ‘Thought For the Day’ on BBC Radio 4, 8th December 2025. Good morning. In the midst of despair for many at the lack of international progress...
John and Charles Wesley, John Hodges, Henry Viers, Sam Taylor, and John Meriton at the First Wesleyan Conference, Foundry, City Road, London. This is a transcript of a Thought for the Day broadcast on BBC...
September 1st was the 150th anniversary of the birth of adventure and science fiction writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, best known for creating the characters of Tarzan and the Martian explorer John Carter. He was one...
This is the transcript of the Revd Prof David Wilkinson’s ‘Thought For the Day’ on BBC Radio 4, 1st September, 2025. Good morning. Today is deadline day, with football’s transfer window closing this evening. An all-time...
This is the transcript of the Revd Prof David Wilkinson’s ‘Thought For the Day’ on BBC Radio 4, 25th August, 2025. Good morning. On this programme on Saturday, there was a discussion of the significance of...
If your go-to headache remedy is to crush the stone of a peach and smear it with rose oil on your forehead, or to use a shampoo containing pieces of lizard, you may not be...