News of recent and upcoming radio and TV appearances are posted under "latest news". This is a list of past programmes, up until spring 2007. If there's a link to a radio show, you may be able to still listen to it.
Television programmes
Mindfield, BBC 3, first tx 28 March 2006
One-third of the ‘Mindfield team’ with June Sarpong and John Cooper, on this broadcast pilot for an as-live debate show
Secular Believers, BBC 2, first tx 9 March 2006
Presenter and co-writer of this BBC Education programme on atheism
Television appearances as guest
The Sunday Edition, ITV1, 22 April 2007
Horizon: Chimps Are People Too, BBC Two, 10 October 2006
What’s Wrong with… The Environment, BBC One Northern Ireland, 4 April 2006
The Heaven and Earth Show, BBC One, 2 April 2006 & 16 October 2005
Richard and Judy, (Studio discussion) Channel Four, 25 October 2005
Je T’Aime: Time Shift, (Talking head on the Brits and Europe) BBC Four, 31 May 2005
The Seven O’clock News, BBC Three; (live link to studio discussion) 10 December 2004; (presenting report on faith schools), 19 May 2004; (studio Discussion with Eddie Mair), 18 May 2004
CNN Today (interviewed by Monita Rajpal), 26 November 2004
Made in Britain: Drinking Britain Dry, Channel 4 (talking to comedian Reginald D Hunter about Britain’s booze culture), 25 October 2004
The Sunday Programme (interviewed by Steve Richards), GMTV, 28 April 2002
BBC News 24 (studio discussion with Gavin Esler), 6 September 2001
Europe Direct (interviewed by Brian Hanrahan), BBC News 24, 3 December 1998
Main radio appearances
Nightwaves, BBC Radio 3, 28 June & 30 April 2007; 27 June, 18 May & 30 March 2005; 28 October & 22 April 2002
Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4, 21 March 2007
Open Book, BBC Radio 4, 18 February 2007 & 16 February 2003
Off the Page, BBC Radio 4, 17 December 2006; 12 August & 25 March 2005
Beyond Belief, BBC Radio 4, 11 September & 2 January 2006, 29 August 2005
Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, 1 August 2006
A Good Read, BBC Radio 4, 20 June 2006
The Food Programme, BBC Radio 4, 26 March 2006
Values Added, BBC Radio Scotland, 19 March & 19 February 2006; 19 June, 14 May, 3 April & 6 February 2005; 17 October, 28 March & 22 February 2004; 23 November & 14 September 2003
In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, BBC Radio 4, 17 November, 19 May & 13 January 2005 and 9 May 2002. (Programmes on Pragmatism, Beauty, The Mind/Body Problem and The Examined Life.)
Broadcasting House, BBC Radio 4, 20 February 2005 & 26 September 2004
Front Row, BBC Radio 4, 1 October & 2 June 2004
Midsummer Sins, BBC Radio 4, 11 & 25 August 2004
The Message, BBC Radio 4, 14 May & 6 February 2004
Thinking Big, BBC World Service, July 2000
Colin Bell Programme, BBC Radio Scotland, 12 August 1998
Also appeared on BBC Radio Four’s Today, World Service’s Newshour, Outlook and The World Today, BBC Radio Two’s Jeremy Vine Show, BBC Radio 5 Live (Anita Anand, Simon Mayo, Victoria Derbyshire, Drive, Breakfast); BBC Radio Wales’s Something Else, ABC Radio National (Australia), Radio New Zealand and numerous local radio stations.
