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| The Rev Richard Coles - personable TV and radio presenter is also a birder |
CELEBRITY clergyman and broadcaster the Rev Richard Coles has come out with a welcome admission.
"I'm an avid birdwatcher," he says in the first episode of Sailing the Shipping Forecast - a four-part series that has been screening this autumn on More4 TV.
Part of the first episode saw him in the company of Joe Parker, the head warden and bird ringer on Lundy Island, where he had the opportunity to handle a chick of one of his favourite species - the Manx Shearwater.
Not only that but the programme provided the opportunity for both to imitate the calls-notes of this almost mystical bird of the open waves.
Before his media career as a radio and TV presenter took off, the Rev Coles (63) was a multi-instrumentalist with two hit-making pop groups, Bronski Beat and The Communards.
He then trained to become a clergyman, subsequently, post-ordination, serving in parishes in Lincolnshire, Knightsbridge and Northamptonshire.
He is now also a best-selling novelist, typically setting his crime thriller yarns in church settings.
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| Carefully does it - overseen by Joe Parker, Richard Coles enjoys a close encounter with a Manx Shearwater chick |
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