Pagans have demanded a voice on Thought for the Day. A petition launched by Stuart Jeffery, a druid, calls for the group to be represented in the daily segment broadcast on the BBC's Today Programme.

Mr Jeffrey criticised the BBC for failing to include pagans in the programme following its review of the slot, which has been criticised including by the Today programme's own presenter John Humphrys.

The programme has never featured a pagan speaker, and also does not include atheist or humanist speakers.

He said he had written to the corporation as well as to director general Tony Hall complaining that the BBC's Religion & Ethics Review, which involved speaking to 150 stakeholders, had not included pagans.

In a post published on the Druid Network, Mr Jeffrey said there was "no excuse" for the failure to consult pagans for the report, which was published in December.