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"All Things Considered" this week (Sunday 29 August at 8.30 am and repeated Thursday 2 September at 5.30 am) features the often labelled "Indiana Jones" of vicars, Peter Owen Jones. Although an Anglican priest and former advertising copywriter, he has become best known to millions for enquiring television programmes such as Around the World in 80 Faiths and Extreme Pilgrim. It was the three weeks in a remote desert cave for that series which prompted him to write letters whilst there to many of the people who have shaped his life, including his birth mother, his ex-wife and St. Anthony. Published as a book, the letters reveal a great deal about his loves and his failures, his beliefs and his questionings, and form the narrative in a candid conversation with Roy Jenkins.

[This programme was first broadcast in February 2010.]

Related info

Letters from an Extreme Pilgrim by Peter Owen Jones, published by Rider Books. ISBN 9781846041334.