Richard Coles, popstar, vicar, one time presenter of Night Waves on Radio 3, is on a tour of bookshops with his crime novel Murder Before Midnight. He's found time to write a diary for The Sunday Times, and this is an extract.
A strange communion of church and BBC
In Winchester, before the bookshops opened, I went to holy communion in the cathedral’s Lady Chapel. The celebrant was the dean, Catherine Ogle, who was at BBC Leeds before she was ordained. I was her pastoral assistant before I was ordained, when she was vicar of Huddersfield, and we have been friends since.
Then another voice said, “Hello, Richard”, and it was Mark Byford, deputy director-general of the BBC when I was in the arts unit, and head of BBC Leeds when Catherine was there. She recruited him for Chapter, which runs the cathedral.
No comments:
Post a Comment