Reverend Richard Coles: The story of my life
Reverend Richard Coles

• Tuesday 13 June 2017, 6.30PM to 7.20pm
• Free admission
  Booking required
• RCH/037, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York (map|getting to campus)
• Wheelchair accessible

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Meet the Reverend Richard Coles, the UK’s only vicar to have had a number one single in the pop charts. As well as the Vicar of Finedon, Northamptonshire, the former member of The Communards is a much-loved broadcaster presenting Saturday Live on Radio 4 and giving us a regular reason to Pause for Thought on Radio 2.

After a life of sex and drugs and The Communards - brilliantly recounted in his highly acclaimed memoir Fathomless Riches - Richard went on to devote himself to God and Christianity.  In his latest book, Bringing in the Sheaves: Wheat and Chaff From My Years as a Priest, he looks at what life is like for the parson in Britain today. 

Join him to hear the story of his life as a vicar and broadcaster.

About the speaker

The Reverend Richard Coles is the presenter of Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4. He read Theology at King's College London, and after ordination worked as a curate in Lincolnshire and subsequently at St Paul's, Knightsbridge, in London. He is the UK's only vicar to have had a number-one single (Don't Leave Me This Way by The Communards, his and Jimmy Sommerville's 80s pop duo). Richard lives in his parish of Finedon, Northamptonshire with his partner David, also a vicar, and their beloved dachshunds. Follow him on Twitter: @RevRichardColes for wit, wisdom and regular #pupdates www.richardcoles.com

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Books will be available to buy from the Waterstones' stall at this event.

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