article_snippet.sent: But this was the Rev Richard Coles – who sits on the board of Wellingborough Homes, a housing association in Northamptonshire – and he is no ordinary churchman.
article_snippet.sent: Known to many for presenting Radio 4’s gentle human interest show Saturday Live, he is the supposed inspiration for the hero of the BBC church sitcom Rev.
article_snippet.sent: he lives nearby in a ‘rather lovely’ grace and favour vicarage provided by the Church of England.
article_snippet.sent: Last October he warned he parishioners to ‘brace his parishioners’ for the publication of he biography Fathomless Riches, and said shortly after: ‘
highlights_snippet.sent: Rev Coles sits on the board of Wellingborough Homes housing association .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Vicar is known for presenting Radio 4's human interest show Saturday live .
  