The Reverend Peter Owen Jones is an Anglican priest, author, environmentalist and television presenter. Peter has had an extraordinarily varied and adventurous life as a jackaroo in Australia, a farm labourer in southern England, and then running a mobile disco, before working his way up from messenger boy to creative director in an advertising agency.

But then, a bit like Saint Anthony the Great or Saint Francis of Assisi, he abandoned a metropolitan lifestyle to become an Anglican priest, firstly in rural Cambridgeshire and now in the delightful East Sussex countryside at Firle, near Lewes. In fact, like St Anthony the Great, Peter - in his Extreme Pilgrim television series - lived in a cave for 21 days in the Egyptian desert.

He is currently working on a television series exploring the less glamorous but fascinating areas of the United Kingdom.

Interview Timestamps

0:00 Adoption: Unknown place of birth 21:21 Family Life: Quakers, medics, Rothman cigarettes and gin 31:30 Trees and Fields: imaginative richness of experiences in nature 40:07 Escaping Darkness and Brutality: Single-sex public-school 1:05:43 Australia: Working on a cattle station 1:17:46 Return to England: Falling in love 1:22:56 A career in Advertising: Marrying the glamours receptionist 1:26:53 Theological College: Reconciled to the Divine, Publishing a Bed of Nails 1:42:48 A Priest in Cambridgeshire: A service for Newbery Bypass protestors 1:52:30 Psalm: Publishing a small book of poetry 2005 1:55:12 Vicar of Firle: Fifteen years of integration 2:05:42 Extreme Pilgrim: Making a BBC TV series - Monks and Desert Fathers 2:24:10 Letters from an Extreme Pilgrim: Living in a Cave 2:27:34 How to Live a Simple Life: Making a BBC documentary after the financial crash 2: 31:13 Spiritual practices to combat consumerism: The higher the wealth, the higher the walls 2: 37:35 Finding Eden where you live: Celebrating Sussex, aka ‘fall in love where you are’ 2: 43:21 Current preoccupations: Filming ‘The Land Less Travelled’, prayer and enjoying family. -- For all things ExtraECC, go to: ExtraECC.com Audio versions of these interviews are at: @extraecc Follow us on FB www.facebook.com/ExtraECC, and Twitter @ecc_extra