It is Good Friday. The Today Programme interviews a man who was discharged from hospital having had CoVid-19. He said that in his hour of need, he saw Christ.

Nick Robinson: ah, you were of course on very powerful drugs at the time.

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The sense of desperate panic amongst the BBC production team that someone was going to mention his Christianity was palpable.

There’s no other faith that would have been dumped on in this way on air on the BBC.

I honestly think that if the recovered patient had outed himself as a Satanist who’d seen the Devil he’d have got a more respectful time.

I understand that Robinson felt awkward in the moment & that this was an instinctive remark rather than a scripted one.

But it’s telling that that’s his instinct, isn’t it? You sweet, silly old drug addled God botherer, chuckled the host... imagine it towards another faith. Try.