'Today' thinks it got it about right

As discussed at 'the other place', here's an Advent treat from this morning's Today programme - a lovely moment where the BBC says it got something about right, never mind what you think:

6.01 Mishal Husain: It's the first of December, so we will open the Today Advent calendar.

7.25 Simon Jack: It's December 1st, and the start of Advent.

7.42 Simon Jack: I've just got to say about our Advent calendar, which we started today on the first of December, we're getting quite a bit of pushback from people saying Advent actually started on Sunday, not today, it's got nothing to do with the first of December. Now that may well be true in terms of the religious holiday or the religious period, although I've never seen an Advent calendar, which is what we're doing, start on the 29th of November. So we're going to defend ourselves there.

Update: As JimS at Biased BBC notes, Simon Jack actually got the date wrong here. Advent started on Sunday, which was the 28th of November. No correction came for that.

[I re-checked to make sure the transcript was correct].