Reverend Richard Coles
Richard Coles is a writer, broadcaster and an Anglican priest. He co-presents Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 and appears, from time to time, on QI, Have I Got News For You, and Would I Lie To You and making documentaries about religion, the arts, and far-off places. He has won Christmas Masterchef, Celebrity Mastermind twice, and captained Leeds to victory in Christmas University Challenge in 2019. A contestant on Strictly in 2017, he scored a lamentably low mark for a Paso Doble. He appears regularly in newspapers and magazines, writing major profiles for the Sunday Times Magazine, a regular column in the Sunday Times and is the author of half a dozen books, including a best selling autobiography, ‘Fathomless Riches’, and the bereavament best seller ‘The Madness of Grief’. He is also the author of the number one bestselling Canon Clement Mysteries and co-presents the history podcast ‘The Rabbithole Detectives’ with Cat Jarman and Charles Spencer.