Author: David Wilkinson
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...
This is a transcript of a Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 21 July 2025. As a US President files a lawsuit for 10 billion dollars, on this day one...
This is a transcript of an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, broadcast on 5 May 2025. Later today, the VE Day celebrations will feature extracts from Churchill’s famous “This is your...
Earlier this month, a team of astronomers led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge published data from the James Webb Space Telescope and claimed, “This is the strongest evidence yet there is...
Photo Credit: Unsplash This is the transcript of the Revd Prof David Wilkinson’s ‘Thought For the Day’ on BBC Radio 4, 28th April 2025. Good morning. From the funeral of a global religious leader, the...