Three Vicars Talking
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When Christine Morgan got Richard Coles, Kate Bottley and Giles Fraser together in a studio, all she had to do was plug them in and let them go. The dynamic between the three meant there were moments of real connection and poignancy alongside the laughter: 'I'm exaggerating for comic effect,' Kate announced after one particularly outrageous anecdote, 'It's one of the reasons we're here.'
Each realized in the course of conversation that they favoured one of the three rites of passage:
Giles: Baptism because you enter into the body of Christ
Richard: Funerals because they take you into the mystery of God
Kate: Weddings because you get to wear nice shoes
Engagingly introduced by Christine Morgan, the book ends with the profoundly moving episode (recorded remotely in the three vicars' homes) that was broadcast on Easter Sunday 2020, to a world in crisis.
REV RICHARD COLES is the co-presenter of Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4, Chancellor of the University of Northampton and Vicar of Finedon.
REV KATE BOTTLEY has starred on Gogglebox and Celebrity MasterChef, and presents Good Morning Sunday on Radio 2 with Jason Mohammed.
REV GILES FRASER is the Rector of St Mary, Newington, Associate Editor @UnHeard, a writer for The Guardian, and a regular panellist on Radio 4's Moral Maze.