More ?

The Times and Today have been briefed about the BBC's latest review of religious output - but at time of writing, it's not formally published, so we don't know who wrote it. Pithy Nick Robinson summarised the BBC's response as "to do more God" - without, as yet, bringing forward evidence that it's what the sovereign body of licence payers want.

"More" is not yet quantified. Thought for The Day will stay, but have "a wider range of voices" (cf reviews of 2002, 2009 etc etc). The BBC global religious affairs team will be boosted; Global News, remember, takes advertising worldwide, and is also in receipt of new Foreign Office funding. The One Show is instructed to do more on non-Christian religious festivals - a cost-neutral command.

More later. Meanwhile Mr Robinson held Mr Purnell's toes to the fire on Today and secured the admission that the BBC's person in charge of religious programming is an atheist.