BRITAIN'S STATE RELIGION? THE CULT OF MULTI-CULTI

Thought for the day: you're fired because you're too religious: The BBC's agnostic head of religion is under fire for his dumping of long-standing presenters. (Elizabeth Day and Chris Hastings, 20/07/2003, Daily Telegraph)

Alan Bookbinder, the corporation's head of religion and ethics and a self-confessed agnostic, has sparked outrage by dispensing with some of the programme's most popular voices.

Among those who say that they have been unseated are Lavinia Byrne, the former Roman Catholic nun who has presented the popular two-minute slot on more than 100 occasions, and the Rev Eric James, a former chaplain to the Queen. [...]

Other regular presenters such as the Rev Annabel Shilson-Thomas, the chaplain of Robinson College, Cambridge, fear that they have also been discarded as the station has not been in contact for some time. "I won't say I am not disappointed by it," she said. "But, from speaking to Christine Morgan, the executive producer of the programme, and one or two other people in the BBC, I hear that they are trying to give it a more secular, more multi-cultural and more multi-faith approach."

George Carey would seem to have been right after all, at least where the elites are concerned. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 27, 2003 7:52 AM