Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 598 )

• Exile (on Main Street)

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Show.Saturday was a bit of a nerve stretch, wasn’t it? Well, it was for me! Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Borderlands

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 (at the new earlier time of 07.15.Do you know what it’s like to live on the... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Easter 2022

  This is the text of the sermon broadcast from Leeds Minster this morning on BBC1 television.John 20:1-18It was early and it was dark. And a woman stands... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Leeds Loop

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 on the day they announced that September will see Radio 2 Live in Leeds.Did... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Gestures of Hope

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.I remember hearing the late great Leonard Cohen explain how he delved... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Iconography

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.They say that radio wins over television because the pictures are... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Invasion of Ukraine

  This is the text of an article, commissioned and written early this morning, and published in the Yorkshire Post just now.The Ukrainian national anthem begins:... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Integrity

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, following publication of Sue Gray’s update on her investigation into... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Education

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, guest-edited by footballer Raheem Sterling on themes of education... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Christmas 2021

  This is the text of my article in today’s Yorkshire Post.Nearly three thousand years ago a Middle Eastern poet wrote words that must have sounded like nonsense... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• I May Be Some Time

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Breakfast Show.The house I live in in Leeds is a couple of hundred years old. Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• St Nicholas

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.I have always felt a bit deprived. I don’t have a middle... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Learning to Wait

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Breakfast Show (with Gary Davies in the chair). Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Thanksgiving

  Today is Thanksgiving in the USA – the 400th celebration. I wrote this script for Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme while in the House of... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Each One Lost

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. I had already written a different script that became inappropriate... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Gaming the System

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.Last Sunday evening we held a celebration in Bradford Cathedral. Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• FW De Klerk

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.As I get older I discover that people and events that were crucial to... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• This Rough Magic (Arts Lecture)

  This Rough MagicDe Lacy Arts Lecture, Bradford Cathedral3 November 2021Studying Shakespeare’s The Tempest for A Level was, at first, a disappointment. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Olympic Spirit

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.So, the Olympics are over and the Paralympics are soon to begin. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Bad Luther

  

  Professor Lyndal Roper’s biography of Martin Luther was a brilliant read. Published in 2017, it looked at this remarkable,strange, brave and conflicted characte... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY