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What the World Thinks of GodBBC2 Thursday 26th February 2004 9pmA survey of people's religious beliefs in 10 countries suggests the UK is among the most secular nations in the world.Ten thousand people were questioned in the poll by research company ICM for the 2004 BBC programme What The World Thinks Of God.More than a quarter of Britons thought the world would be more peaceful with nobody believing in God, but very few people in other countries agreed.The survey found the highest levels of belief in some of the world's poorer countries, but also in the world's richest, America.Full poll results here (pdf file): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/programmes/wtwtgod/pdf/wtwtogod.pdfPresented by Jeremy Vine with contributions from Francis Arinze, Wendy Beckett, Ariel Dorfman, Sagarika Ghose, Susan Greenfield, Sean Hughes, James Jones, Rana Kabbani, Imran Khan, Richard Land, Jonathan Miller, Andrew Motion, Tu Nokwe, Shlomo Riskin, Mu Shim Sunim and Hye-Joon Yoon.Apologies for the poor sound quality, it's like that in the original recording.