One of my reflex actions in the morning is to turn the radio from BBC Radio 4 over to Classic FM as soon as I hear The Today Programme presenters start to say “it’s 13 minutes to 8, and time for Thought for the day”. I don’t need to listen to 2 minutes of puerile drivel from some religious twerp at the start of the day.
A side benefit of this, in addition to the fact I don’t have to listen to Thought for the Day, which is benefit enough, is that occasionally there is a really good piece of music on Classic FM when I switch over. A few days ago they were playing one of the pieces from Dvorák’s Slavonic Dance suite [Op. 46: No. 8 in G Minor (presto)]. Excellent stuff. Available from the iTMS.