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New year, new diary to confide in. But how long before we tire of our daily scribbling?

On 'All Things Considered' this week (Sunday 3 January at 08.30am, repeated on Wednesday January 6th at 6.30pm), there's another chance to hear Roy Jenkins' interview with a man who has kept writing every day for more than fifty years: five million words, reduced for his book Journey of a Lifetime to a modest 160,000.

John Morgans began his first diary as a 12 year old at Tylorstown in the Rhondda. He wrote on through his student days, his years as a minister in Llanidloes and at Manselton, and later as moderator of the United Reformed Church in Wales.

He reacted to world events, and wrote powerfully as one of the church leaders attempting to negotiate during the miners' strike of 1984.

Some of his most poignant reflections were on life at Penrhys, the mountaintop estate in the Rhondda where he and his wife Norah led a Christian community which has attracted interest around the world.

Further information about John Morgans' book Journey of a Lifetime can be obtained by emailing John Morgans at jonomo@btinternet.com.