“The Daily Service is still full of life and nowhere near retirement. It is one of the jewels in the BBC’s crown, and I’m sure it will continue as long as the BBC remains,” he said. “For 15 minutes every day we . . . seek to find ways of understanding and expressing people’s deepest hopes, fears, and spiritual responses to [the news]. This is a unique form of public service. . . The Daily Service has accommodated itself to life in a multifaith, multi-platform environment, and still manages to bear a faithful witness to its Christian roots”