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Richard Coles
@RevRichardColes
Former Communard, Chancellor of the University of Northampton, writer, broadcaster, podcaster. Please don’t shout at me.
richardcoles.comJoined March 2011
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Richard Coles
@RevRichardColes
See you Wednesday!
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Catherine Larner
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Lovely to hear @RevRichardColes with @SarahLilley5150 on @BBCSuffolk this morning. Much more to ask him when he visits us @_theriverside @BrowsersBks #Woodbridge on Weds at noon. Get your ticket before it’s too late! 01394 382174
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Happy 80th birthdays to Newt Gingrich and Barry Manilow. I can't laugh and I can't sing I'm finding it hard to do anything since you destroyed the idea of a national interest beyond ruthless partisanship.
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I got home at midnight but had the foresight and sheer grit to put a wash on before I went to bed. The record shows I took the blows and did it MY way.
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What would you look for in a trombone case? Robust construction to preserve it from knocks? Or light and strappy so you can take it on your bike?
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This is tonight folks at 7.30! The MCT at Alleyn's, Alleyn's School, Townley Road, East Dulwich SE22 8SU! Glorious Dulwich!
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The wonderful @RevRichardColes is our last event before the summer break. He'll be chatting to the equally wonderful @policecommander on Thursday @MCTAlleyns - it's going to be a great event! You can buy tickets in the bookshop and online: bit.ly/3yT5rYk
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It is the 642nd anniversary of the killing of Wat Tyler at Smithfield. A leader of the Peasants’ Revolt he rode out to parley with the king but negotiations broke down when he got in a fight with the Lord Mayor of London and was decapitated. Put not your trust in princes, folks!
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Two kids sitting behind me on the train at Pontypool talking in that excitable way of teenagers - but about the calories in branded ice cream, the etiquette of boys going topless, and the differences between people IRL and on Insta.
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Hurray for me *blows own Wagnertuba*
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We're delighted to announce that @RevRichardColes #ADeathintheParish is a Sunday Times Bestseller! It will be No.1 in the charts this weekend! 👏 Thank you to all readers, booksellers and reviewers for all your love and support ✨
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Sitting in my hotel room at Oswestry looking out over the canal writing a passage about the little village of Battyeford in Yorkshire when a narrow boat chugs past with a sign saying its berthed at the little village of Battyeford in Yorkshire.
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There is a man making a business call on his phone from a cubicle in the gents at Bristol Temple Meads. Let’s hope it’s not FaceTime, though sound alone is more than enough to transmit the detail of his original purpose.
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I am going somewhere on the train that I not only have never stopped at before but also think I have never heard of before. And then - boom - I remember it was where RS Thomas was curate #Chirk
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Put up your hand if you can… (a) tell the difference between a designer t shirt and a regular t shirt (b) burnt sienna and terracotta (c) Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism.
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Leave things alone unless you absolutely can’t is my mantra, but surely the time has come to reform the second chamber? I think it should be much smaller and skills-based rather than a reward for loyalty or granted ex officio. Appointed? Elected? Bit of both? Don’t know.
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I very much enjoyed talking to Jon.
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Jon Snow
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My guest on #snowcast this week is the @RevRichardColes . We discuss his fascinating life and career, the place of religion in 2023, his new novel and how he feels now he is no longer a practicing vicar.... You can hear the latest episode from wherever you get your podcasts!
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