Prayer for the Day is a religious radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

 in the United Kingdom. It comprises a 2 minute reading or prayer and reflection to start the day.

Transmission

In 1983 the programme which had always gone on air at 6.50am, was moved to 6.25am and replaced by a "Business News" slot. Since 1998 it has been broadcast each day between 5.43 and 5.45. a.m. before Farming Today

Farming Today

-Transmission:It is broadcast each week day between 5.45 and 6.00 a.m. and a longer programme is broadcast on Saturdays from 06.35 – 7.00 a.m. Around one million people listen to the programme...

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Contributors

Recent contributors have included George Pitcher

George Pitcher

George Pitcher is a journalist, author, public relations pioneer and an Anglican priest. He was appointed in October 2010 and left the post a year later. Previously, he was Religion Editor of Telegraph Media from May 2008 and wrote a regular column and occasional leaders for the Daily Telegraph...

, Shaunaka Rishi Das

Shaunaka Rishi Das

Shaunaka Rishi Das is the Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies , a position he has held since the Centre's foundation in 1997. He is a Hindu cleric, a lecturer, a broadcaster, and Hindu Chaplain to Oxford University...

, George Craig, Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer, Judy Merry,
Canon Stephen Shipley and Canon Noel Battye.