BBC ‘abandons Christianity’ after dropping traditional Easter service broadcast

The BBC has been accused of turning its back on Britain’s Christian faith after scrapping its broadcast of the traditional Easter service from King’s College, Cambridge.

The programme has been dropped in favour of religious coverage elsewhere across the corporation’s platforms.

It comes after the BBC decided to invite “confirmed atheist” and humanist campaigner Alice Roberts on the Good Friday edition of Desert Island Discs rather than a Christian figure.

Ms Roberts, the professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham and vice-president of the charity Humanists UK, refused the Desert Island Discs tradition of taking a Bible with her, alongside the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

Critics have said the BBC appeared to be deliberately abandoning the part of its audience that professed the Christian faith.

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