Richard Keith Robert Coles FRSA FKC (born 26 March 1962)[1] is an English writer, radio presenter and Church of England priest. He first came to prominence as the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band the Communards. They achieved three UK top ten hits, including the No. 1 record and best-selling single of 1986, a dance version of "Don't Leave Me This Way".
Coles frequently appears on radio and television as well as in newspapers and, from March 2011 until March 2023, was the co-host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live programme.[2] He is a regular contributor to QI, Would I Lie to You? and Have I Got News for You.[3] He is an author, the chancellor of the University of Northampton, a former honorary chaplain to the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers, and a patron of social housing project Greatwell Homes in Wellingborough.
Coles was born in Northampton, England. His grandfather was a prosperous shoe manufacturer. The company failed under Coles's father, because of the increasing popularity of cheaper foreign imports, and the family lost much of their wealth.
He was educated at the independent Wellingborough School (where he was a choirboy),[4] and at the South Warwickshire College of Further Education (Department of Drama & the Liberal Arts) in Stratford-upon-Avon. He later attended King's College London, where he studied theology from 1990.[4] Coles was awarded an MA by research from the University of Leeds in 2005 for work on the Greek text of the Epistle to the Ephesians.[5]
Coles learned to play the saxophone, clarinet and keyboards and moved to London in 1980, where he played in theatre.[4] In 1983, he appeared with Jimmy Somerville in the Lesbian and Gay Youth Video Project film Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts,[6] which won the Grierson Award.[7] Coles joined Bronski Beat (initially on saxophone) in 1983.[citation needed]
Somerville left Bronski Beat and in 1985 he and Coles formed the Communards,[8][4] who were together for just over three years and had three UK top 10 hits, including the biggest-selling single of 1986, a version of "Don't Leave Me This Way", which was at number one for four weeks.[9] The band split in 1988 and Somerville went solo.
Coles provided narration for the Style Council's film JerUSAlem in 1987[10] and also started a career as a writer, particularly with the Times Literary Supplement and the Catholic Herald. He took up religion in his late twenties, after "the best of times, the worst of times", pop success and the deaths of friends as a result of HIV.[11] From 1991 to 1994 he studied for a BA in theology at King's College London. While at university, Coles became a Roman Catholic and remained so for the next ten years before returning to Anglicanism in 2001.[12]
Coles was selected for training for the priesthood in the Church of England and began his training at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, in 2003, before being ordained in 2005.[13][4] After ordination, he was a curate at St Botolph's Church in Boston, Lincolnshire and then at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London.[14][1] He has been chaplain of the Royal Academy of Music, played Dr Frank N Furter in a local concert and conducted an atheist funeral for Mo Mowlam in 2005.[4][15][16]
Coles was an inspiration for the character of Adam Smallbone (played by Tom Hollander) in BBC Two sitcom Rev. and was also an advisor to the show.[17] Coles mentions in his book Fathomless Riches that he is also the inspiration for the character "Tom" in the Bridget Jones novels.[18] In January 2011, Coles was appointed as the vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon in the Diocese of Peterborough.[19]
Since 2011, Coles has been on the board of Wellingborough Homes, a social enterprise providing housing and community support for the Borough of Wellingborough and, after its name change to Greatwell Homes, became its Patron.[20] In 2012, Coles was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Northampton and also became a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of Warwick. In 2019 he was appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers.[21][22]
In July 2017, Coles was elected a Fellow of King's College London and separately as Chancellor of the University of Northampton.
Coles retired as vicar of Finedon on Low Sunday 2022. Looking back on his time as a "half-time vicar", he said: "'How do you do all the things you do?' I am frequently asked, and the answer is by neglecting important things and disappointing people. I was once called in the middle of the night to attend a parishioner's deathbed and I could not because I was in Glasgow doing Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. I found someone to cover, but it should have been me." He explained: "I will still be a priest, I will always be a priest, and I will minister where I am able. Next month I am going to my first conference of prison chaplains and I hope I can make myself useful as a volunteer with inmates in the criminal justice system."[23]
In April 2022, Coles announced that he retired from parish duties due to the Church of England allegedly increasingly excluding gay couples, and what he described as its "conservative, punchy and fundamentalist" direction.[24]
On 1 November 2012 (All Saints' Day), Darton, Longman and Todd published Coles's book, Lives of the Improbable Saints, illustrated by Ted Harrison, a précis of the life stories of nearly 200 lesser-known saints. The following year volume two, Legends of the Improbable Saints, was published.
In 2014, the first volume of his memoirs, Fathomless Riches, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. In 2016 a follow-up volume, Bringing in the Sheaves, was published.
In June 2022, Coles's debut mystery novel Murder Before Evensong was released. It is intended to be first in a series about Canon Daniel Clement.[25] The sequel, A Death In The Parish, was published on 8 June 2023.[26] The first book has been optioned for a television adaptation, with Coles serving as an executive producer.[27][28]
In 2023, Coles signed a deal with W&N to write three more Canon Clement books. The first of these, Murder at the Monastery was released in June 2024.[29][28]
Coles still works as a broadcaster, which he describes as "just showing off",[30] including Nightwaves on Radio 3, which he formerly presented, and Newsnight Review on BBC Two. He has appeared on the Radio 4 panel game show Heresy twice; first in May 2008 and then in May 2010.[31] Coles has appeared seven times as a guest on the topical television news quiz Have I Got News for You, in 1994, May 2009, May 2013, April 2016, June 2017, April 2020 and May 2021. He presented a special edition of Songs of Praise in January 2010.[1] He was a guest on the Children in Need special of the BBC quiz Only Connect in November of the same year. In 2011, he presented a four-part Radio 3 series called Out in the World: A Global Gay History.
He regularly guest-hosted the Radio 4 programme Saturday Live, while the regular host Fi Glover was on maternity leave from 2008 to 2009. Coles replaced Glover permanently in 2011. On 1 September 2011, he presented a short piece on his home town and parish of Finedon for the Radio 4 programme You and Yours. In December 2012, December 2013 and November 2014, Coles appeared as a guest on the BBC comedy quiz show QI. In January 2014, he won the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind, with his specialist subject being the Mapp and Lucia novels of E. F. Benson.
Coles featured as the subject of Fern Britton Meets... on BBC1 in December 2014. Since 2014 he has appeared regularly in the "Pause for Thought" slot on Radio 2's The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, for which he won a Jerusalem Award in 2014.[32]
In July 2016, Coles appeared on the BBC cooking series Celebrity Masterchef, finishing in fifth place. In December 2021, he once again appeared on the programme, this time winning the edition.[33] In February 2017, he co-presented The Big Painting Challenge with Mariella Frostrup on BBC1. From September 2017, Coles was a contestant in the 15th series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. He was paired with professional dancer Dianne Buswell. They were the second couple to be eliminated after scoring 14 points for their Paso Doble to the theme from Flash Gordon – at the time, the lowest scoring Paso Doble in the history of the show.[34]
On 18 December 2017, Coles was a guest panellist on the Christmas special of the eleventh series of BBC1 comedy quiz Would I Lie to You?, hosted by Rob Brydon. Coles was captain of a team from the University of Leeds who were series champions on the BBC's Christmas 2019 University Challenge.[35][36] In December 2020 Coles was featured in the BBC series Winter Walks, walking from Sutton Bank to Rievaulx Abbey.[37] He said, "At the centre of what we do in order to be who we are, we need silence, we need retreat, we need contemplation."[38]
Coles appeared in a January 2021 episode of the BBC Four series Britain's Lost Masterpieces, discussing the story of the Magi in the gospels, in relation to a portrayal of Balthazar by Joos van Cleve.[39]
In August 2022, Coles appeared in the Channel 4 documentary Good Grief with Reverend Richard Coles, discovering some of the different ways people deal with bereavement.[40]
From 7 to 11 November 2022 Coles guest hosted Channel 4's game show Countdown as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations.
On 22 March 2023, The Guardian reported that Coles was disappointed to be leaving the BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live programme following that week's edition, due to the programme's relocation to Cardiff.[41]
Coles is gay. The first person to whom Coles came out was his mother, in 1978, when he was 16. He played her Tom Robinson's "Glad to Be Gay" four times, before she said "Darling, are you trying to tell me something?"[42] Coles has spoken about the "mental crisis" that he suffered following his coming out, which ultimately led to him attempting suicide and being diagnosed with clinical depression.[43]
Coles suffers from tinnitus in his right ear, the result of his performing loud pop music, which he described in 2020 as sounding "like something from the National Grid kind of powering through your ear ... can be very frustrating."[37]
In 2007, Coles began a relationship with David Oldham, who was also an Anglican priest.[44][45] In 2010, the couple entered into a civil partnership (which the Church of England has allowed clergy to do since 2005[46]), with David taking Richard's surname.[47] Coles asserted at the time that the relationship was celibate,[44] but later said that this had not been true, but he had to promise celibacy in order to maintain his job as a vicar.[48] David Coles died in December 2019,[49] with Coles later stating that his death was linked to alcoholism.[50] Coles said he had received hate mail saying that his partner is in hell.[51]
In June 2023 Coles revealed that he was in a relationship with actor Richard Cant.[52]
Coles's older brother, Andy, a former Metropolitan Police officer, was elected in 2015 as a Conservative councillor in Peterborough and was appointed deputy Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner in 2016. Following a reference to his earlier career as an undercover police officer in Coles's 2014 autobiography, he resigned as deputy commissioner over allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a political activist.[53][54] The relationship was part of a wider UK undercover policing relationships scandal in this period.[53]
Coles is a member of the Labour Party.[55] He is also a member of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), having become enthusiastic about GAA sports through watching the 2020 TV series Normal People. Family ties led to Coles selecting Cork as his county (hurling team/football team) and St Finbarr's as his club. The club responded by sending him a membership card.[56]
Coles moved to Friston, East Sussex in May 2022 to be closer to his friend and former manager Lorna Gradden. He said "I'll be living in a charming 18th-century cottage with a bow window that looms over the street affording a privileged view of my neighbours' comings and goings, as the scent of lavender floats across the village green."[57][58]
In 1991, Coles sued accountants Coombes Wales Quinnell who allegedly had refused to hand over financial records until £30,000 fees were paid.[59]
Canon Clement Mysteries
Para otros usos de este término, véase Hermanas de la caridad. Congregación de Hermanas de la Caridad de Jesús Foto antigua de algunas hermanas de la caridad con el fundadorNombre latino Congregatio Sororum Caritatis a IesuSiglas S.C.GNombre común Hermanas de la Caridad de JesúsGentilicio Hermanas de la CaridadTipo Congregación religiosa católica femenina, de vida apostólica y de derecho pontificioFundador Antonio CavoliFundación 15 de agosto de 1937Lugar de fundación Miyazaki, Japón…
Aquí hay tomate Aquí hay tomateAutor Eulàlia ValldoseraCreación 2004Ubicación Avenida Diagonal 1, Distrito de Sant Martí, Barcelona, EspañaEstilo Arte conceptualTécnica InstalaciónCoordenadas 41°24′44″N 2°13′24″E / 41.41236, 2.22344[editar datos en Wikidata] Aquí hay tomate es una instalación artística situada en el Parque del Fórum de Barcelona. Fue realizada por Eulàlia Valldosera en 2004, para el Fórum Universal de las Culturas.[1]̴…
مجمع اللغة العربية الأردني مَجْمَع اللُّغَة الْعَرَبِيَّة الْأُرْدُنِّي شعار المجمع البلد الأردن المقر الرئيسي عَمَّان تاريخ التأسيس 23 يوليو 1923، ثم أعيد تأسيسه وتفعيله عام 1976 المؤسس سعيد بن علي الكرمي العضوية اتحاد المجامع اللغوية العلمية العربية ال…
Ambassador of Australia toSaudi ArabiaIncumbentMark Donovansince 4 October 2021 (2021-10-04)Department of Foreign Affairs and TradeStyleHis ExcellencyReports toMinister for Foreign AffairsResidenceRiyadhNominatorPrime Minister of AustraliaAppointerGovernor General of AustraliaInaugural holderIan HaigFormation1974 The Ambassador of Australia to Saudi Arabia is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Embassy of the Commonwealth o…
نوال منصوري معلومات شخصية الميلاد 1 أغسطس 1985 (العمر 38 سنة)بجاية مواطنة الجزائر الطول 174 سنتيمتر الحياة العملية المهنة لاعبة كرة طائرة اللغات العربية الرياضة الكرة الطائرة[1] تعديل مصدري - تعديل نوال منصوري (ولدت 01 أغسطس 1985 ببجاية، الجزائر) هي لاعبة كرة
Bolivian footballer (born 1970) In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Etcheverry (from the Basque Etxeberria) and the second or maternal family name is Vargas. Marco Etcheverry Etcheverry in 2000Personal informationFull name Marco Antonio Etcheverry VargasDate of birth (1970-09-26) 26 September 1970 (age 53)Place of birth Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BoliviaHeight 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Position(s) MidfielderYouth career1984–1986 Tahuichi AcademySenior caree…
?Чорна котяча акула носата Охоронний статус Даних недостатньо (МСОП 3.1) Біологічна класифікація Домен: Ядерні (Eukaryota) Царство: Тварини (Animalia) Підцарство: Справжні багатоклітинні (Eumetazoa) Тип: Хордові (Chordata) Підтип: Черепні (Craniata) Надклас: Щелепні (Gnathostomata) Клас: Хрящ
Cryptonanus Cryptonanus agricolai Біологічна класифікація Царство: Тварини (Animalia) Тип: Хордові (Chordata) Клада: Синапсиди (Synapsida) Клас: Ссавці (Mammalia) Інфраклас: Сумчасті (Marsupialia) Ряд: Опосумоподібні (Didelphimorphia) Родина: Опосумові (Didelphidae) Триба: Thylamyini Рід: CryptonanusVoss et al., 2005 Вікісховище: Cryptonanus Cryptonanus — р…
CarmePenemuanDitemukan olehS. B. NicholsonTanggal penemuan30 Juli 1938[1]Ciri-ciri orbitJari-jari orbit rata-rata23.400.000 km[2]Eksentrisitas0,25[2]Periode orbit702,28 hari (1,9228 a)[2]Kecepatan orbit rata-rata2,253 km/sInklinasi164,91° (terhadap ekliptika)167,53° (terhadap ekuator Jupiter)[2]Satelit dariJupiterCiri-ciri fisikJari-jari rata-rata~23 km[3]Luas permukaan~6600 km²Volume~51,000 km³Massa1,3×1017 kgMassa jenis rata-r…
Terakul atau ''dragon'', dijumpai di medan tempur di Cerro Gordo, Mexico Tarkul atau terakul, terakol, dan terkul adalah salah satu senjata yang digunakan di Nusantara. Tarkul pada awalnya menggunakan teknologi wheel lock (kancing roda) yang mana kemajuan teknologi ini memungkinkan ia membakar bubuk mesiu secara otomatis tanpa membutuhkan fuze.[1] Istilah ini dapat mengacu pada blunderbuss (pemuras) dalam bentuk pistol, tetapi juga dapat merujuk pada senapan flintlock. Tarkul nampaknya l…
Romanian dissident and writer This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: Ion Ioanid – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Ion IoanidBorn(1926-03-28)28 March 1926Ilovăţ, Mehedinți County, Kingdom of RomaniaDied12 October 2003(2003-10-12) (aged 77)Munich, GermanyOccupationM…
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: IBM 632 – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) IBM 632IBM 632 Electronic Typing CalculatorTypeAccounting machineRelease date1958; 65 years ago (1958)Introductory price$17…
Faculty of the Heidelberg University Heidelberg UniversityFaculty of LawTypepublicEstablished1386; 637 years ago (1386)DeanEkkehard ReimerStudents2.952 (2018)LocationHeidelberg, BW, GermanyCampusurbanWebsitehttp://www.jura.uni-heidelberg.de/ Heidelberg Law Library (2004) The Heidelberg University Faculty of Law (also known as Heidelberg Law School), located in Heidelberg, Germany, is one of the original four constituent faculties of Heidelberg University. Founded in 1386 by Rup…
Geranyl pyrophosphate Names Preferred IUPAC name (2E)-3,7-Dimethylocta-2,6-dien-1-yl trihydrogen diphosphate Identifiers CAS Number 763-10-0 N 3D model (JSmol) Interactive image ChEBI CHEBI:17211 Y ChEMBL ChEMBL41342 Y ChemSpider 393471 Y DrugBank DB02552 Y IUPHAR/BPS 3051 MeSH Geranyl+pyrophosphate PubChem CID 445995 InChI InChI=1S/C10H20O7P2/c1-9(2)5-4-6-10(3)7-8-16-19(14,15)17-18(11,12)13/h5,7H,4,6,8H2,1-3H3,(H,14,15)(H2,11,12,13)/b10-7+ YKey: GVVPGTZRZFNKDS…
Trinidadian footballer (born 1990) Aubrey David David with Saprissa in 2019Personal informationFull name Aubrey Robert DavidDate of birth (1990-10-11) 11 October 1990 (age 33)Place of birth Georgetown, GuyanaHeight 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]Position(s) DefenderTeam informationCurrent team AlajuelenseNumber 52Youth career2004–2008 Vessigny Government Secondary2008–2009 W ConnectionSenior career*Years Team Apps (Gls)2009–2011 FC South End 0 (0)2011 Joe Public 7 (0)2011…
Tone poem by Jean Sibelius The BardTone poem by Jean SibeliusThe composer (c. 1911)Native nameBardenOpus64Composed1913 (1913), rev. 1913PublisherBreitkopf & Härtel (1914)[1]Duration8 mins.[2]PremiereDate27 March 1913 (1913-03-27)[2]LocationHelsinki, Grand Duchy of FinlandConductorJean SibeliusPerformersHelsinki Philharmonic Society The Bard (in Swedish: Barden), Op. 64, tone poem for orchestra written in 1913 by the Finni…
Vestige du Monument à François Arago sur la place de l'Île-de-Sein ; la statue en bronze a été envoyée à la fonte en 1942 sous le régime de Vichy, reste le piédestal en pierre. Cet article recense les statues installées sur l'espace public à Paris, en France, mais aujourd'hui disparues. Généralités À Paris, les destructions de statues et monuments se concentrent sur deux périodes principales : la Révolution française (fin du XVIIIe siècle) et pendant le régime …
This is a list of symbols of Scientology, the Church of Scientology, and related organizations. List This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2018) Name Image Description Scientology symbol The Scientology symbol is an S curving through two triangles. The S stands for Scientology. The top triangle represents the KRC triangle — knowledge, responsibility and control. The lower triangle consists of the ARC triangle of affinity, reality and communication.[1] …
Bagian dari seriEskatologi AntaragamaAkhir zaman Apokaliptisisme Fenomena 2012MilenarianismeArmageddonPengadilan TerakhirKebangkitan orang matiYa'juj dan Ma'jujEskatologi Lia Eden Eskatologi HinduEskatologi Hindu Eskatologi IslamTempat 'Arasy Âkhirah Barzakh Firdaws `Adn Jannah Jahannam Jahim Kaʿbah Mahsyar Shirāth Pohon Neraka Tokoh Utama Dābbat al-Ard Dajjāl Dzu as-Suwayqatayn Imam Mahdī `Īsā Khawārij Muḥammad Yā'jūj dan Mā'jūj Malaikat Al-Arham Hamalat al-‘Arsy Izra'īl Isrā…
Buku Hisnul Muslim dalam berbagai media dan bahasa. Buku penjelasan (paling atas), berbahasa Indonesia (kiri dan tengah), berbahasa Arab (kanan), dan versi aplikasi android (bawah). Hisnul Muslim (Arab: حصن المسلم; Hishnu al-Muslim) atau lengkapnya Hishnul Muslim min Adzkaril Kitabi Was Sunnah yang dalam bahasa Indonesia berarti Benteng/Perisai Seorang Muslim sebuah buku yang disusun oleh Sa'id bin 'Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahthani.[1] Buku saku (kutaib) yang begitu populer dan tela…
Lokasi Pengunjung: 52.15.71.71