The broadcaster and Church of England vicar tells Abigail Frymann Rouch about his journey from drugs, pop stardom, gay flings and ‘existential despair’ to faith in God PEOPLE’S CHARACTERS never fundamentally change, according to one school of psychology, and that even the Damascene conversion only gave St Paul a new focus for his entrenched driven-ness. So when I meet the Revd Richard Coles, the Northamptonshire parish priest who co-hosts BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live programme I find myself straining to catch a glimpse of the 1980s pop star who performed in the Communards with falsetto-singing frontman Jimmy Somerville. This is not just for the sake of my teenaged self who admired them on Top of the Pops, but also to reconcile the genial, black-clad vicar offering