Preacher: The Rev’d Richard Coles, Vicar, Finedon, Presenter and former ‘Strictly’ contestant

Richard Coles is Vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire, where two of his ancestors were Vicars in the seventeenth century (the latter sequestered for malignancy). He has a parallel career in broadcasting and currently co-presents Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4. He appears regularly on television, and thirty years ago was in the pop band ‘The Communards’, which makes him the only vicar to have had a number one record. He is the author of four books and an unread thesis on the Greek text of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Since 2017 he has been Chancellor of the University of Northampton.