Remembrance Sunday 2011

 A Humanist’s ‘Thought For The Day’

David Brittain, General Secretary of the UK Armed Forces Humanist Association (UKAFHA) has been invited by BBC Three Counties Radio to deliver a ‘Thought for the Day’ (TFTD) on Remembrance Sunday. This is the first time he has been invited by the BBC to make a broadcast on behalf of UKAFHA, and he hopes that a good number of Humanists will be able to listen in.

The programme begins early in the morning, and David expects his TFTD will be broadcast somewhere around 7.50am*. He very much hopes you will find his TFTD both moving and relevant. He will also be taking part in a two-hour debate on current religious/moral issues with a selection of religious representatives between 7.00am* and 9.00am*. 

Most Dorset Humanists will be outside the Three Counties broadcast network, but you can tune in by going to BBC Three Counties Programmes online. Near the bottom of the page under ‘Categories, and Genres’, click on ‘Religion and Ethics’, and if you see the name Toby Freidner, you've found the right place.You will be able to listen live if you get up early, or as a recording anytime during the following few days.

Dorset Humanists at Local Remembrance Service

Richard Scutt and Humanist celebrant Maggie Pepin will lay a wreath at the  Bournemouth War Memorial on 13th November as part of the Remembrance Service.  The wreath will state: “From Dorset Humanists on behalf of the United Kingdom Armed Forces Humanist Association. For those who gave their lives for us. We will remember them.”   

*Please note revised broadcast times

Debate on Humanism in Lords

Lord Harrison  to ask Her Majesty’s Government, with reference to the agreement of July 2006 between the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the BBC, what is their assessment of the extent to which the BBC has paid sufficient regard to the importance of reflecting humanism in its programmes, particularly in relation to Thought for the Day. (1 hour)

Moses Room - Meeting started on Wednesday 4 November

View from 3 hours 10 minutes - timings in ( ) of Humanist Lords
Transcription of entire debate from 6.51 - 7.44 pm



6.51 pm (3hr 10 mins) Lord Harrison

7 pm (3hr 19 mins) Baroness Massey of Darwen

7.04 pm (3hr 23 mins) Baroness Young of Hornsey

7.15 pm (3hr 34 mins) Lord Birt

7.20 pm (3hr 39 mins) Lord Warner

7.22 pm (3hr 41 mins) Lord Macdonald of Tradeston

7.26 pm (3hr 45 mins) Lord Joffe

7.30 pm (3hr 49 mins) Lord Taverne



Source: http://www.humanism.org.uk/news/view/385