Second Thought for the day
Dan Beach
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Training the crosshairs of reason on the broadcast output of Thought For The Day from BBC Radio 4, which frequently features nonsensical claims and other affronts to reason with no apparent accountability.
SecondThought aims to provide that accountability.
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S1E21 Jayne Manfredi - Unimaginatively manipulative desperation from Anglican
Catastrophic attempt to string together meaning from Manfredi. She opens with seemingly dishonest assessment of John Lennon's Imagine. Manages to troll Philip Larkin in same sentence. Gets worse.
S1E20 John Studzinski - Very poor advice on what, and how, to fear
After quite a lot of rubbish about what in the world we should fear, John Studzinski makes outlandish claims on channeling his soul as an effective means to handle fear.
S1E19 Daniel Greenberg - Unsound claims about the existence of words from late idiosyncratic rabbi
Greenberg delivers a harmless broadcast but reinforces a hypercorrection from an age of pedantic linguistic elitism. Oh, and a small case of exaggeration.
S1E18 Jennifer Smith - A merciless tour through how Christianity tortured a word to death
Listen to Methodist preacher, Jennifer Smith, repeatedly demonstrate a failure to understand mercy. Which is forgivable, given what her brethren did to the poor word.
S1E17 Rev Martin Wroe - surnames, just-so stories and other muppetry from the volunteer vicar
Martin reveals his indifference to his audience by making a very silly claim about the origins of surnames that even a moment's self doubt would have prevented.
S1E16 Ibrahim Mogra - Mogra takes purile banality to a whole new level
This guy should run a course on platitudinous guff. He's a world-class waste of airtime. Listen to him first make some pretty grave errors on the conflation of aesthetic beauty with some generic take…
S1E15 Catherine Pepinster - The Catholic appropriation of May Day
Injecting truth into Pepinster's account: why a pope wanted May Day for himself, rather than let communists have all the fun.
S1E14 Giles Fraser - scything through an awful muddle from Kew Vicar on technology
West London vicar broadcasts hapless rumination on power cuts, the worship of technology, 'older gods' and 'human pleasures'. It's quite the cluster.
S1E13 Theos think-tank leader, Chine McDonald, demonstrates poor grasp of fact, reason and belief
Chine McDonald dabbles in subjects about which she clearly knows little (reason and faith in the Christian church) before regurgitating suspicious survey data as fact without a moment's hesitation.
S1E12 Priest claims England's Catholic roots have prevented English dictatorship
Notes on Thoughts for the Day from 21-28 April. Tilby doesn't disappoint: revealing just how her English and Anglican exceptionalism have impaired her ability to think. Jennifer Smith joins in with…
S1E11 Angela Tilby - Welcome to an Anglican drought of reason from the ever-reliable Canon Tilby
A real car crash broadcast from Tilby. So bad you should definitely listen to the original on BBC Sounds. It's a masterclass in why faith should never outweigh curiosity.
S1E10 Michael Hurley - Pointless rhetorical tour of some literary logical flaws
Not a single factual error. That's quite an achievement in this company!
S1E9 Throwback review - Retired priest was worse than we thought at the time
Angela Tilby demonstrates that she can plumb depths that you'd not initially appreciated. Welcome to the straw man episode in which Tilby invents history.In a throwback episode we fact-check our…
S1E8 Lucy Winkett - Anglican rector boldly leaps the boundaries of sense and coherence
The Easter effect claims another victim among the Christian TftD presenting community.
S1E7 Jasvir Singh - In honour of Jon Humphrys, we just named an error
Singh does well but failed to distinguish Sikhism from not-Islam and we're likely a tad unfair to saddle him with the inaugural use of the Humphrys Kumbaya Flagrancy
S1E6 Catherine Pepinster - Pepinster get's wrapped up in error-strewn commentary on biblical cloaks
There is no coherence here. Just cloaks. Donkeys, misogyny and cloaks.
S1E5 David Walker - Faintly embarrassing flag waving from Anglican Bishop
Bishop of Manchester provides wholly one-sided account of the development of the ethics of war. There's good stuff in there too, but that's really not what stands out.
S1E4 Ephraim Mirvis - Rabbi Knight is eloquent, relevant and informative. Canon Tilby, take note.
Chief Rabbi On truth, Passover and holding holocaust deniers to account .
S1E3 Angela Tilby - Does Tilby have beef with Camilla?
Former Anglican priest rambles about marriage. Fails to make point. Makes many logical errors. Doesn’t seem to like Camilla. Possibly doesn’t like Archbishop.Notes, the podcast script and everything…
S1E2 Sam Wells - London vicar opens with falsehood. Fails much to improve thereafter.
London vicar opens with needless falsehood. Fails much to improve thereafter.
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Second Thought for the day has published 21 episodes since June 2025, covering topics in Comedy, Religion & Spirituality.
Second Thought for the day is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 16m.
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