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Helen Joyce is an Irish journalist and critic of the transgender rights movement. She studied as a mathematician and worked in academia before becoming a journalist. Joyce began working for The Economist as education correspondent for its Britain section in 2005 and has since held several senior positions, including finance editor and international editor. She published her book Trans: When Ideolo...

ABOUT FR ALEX Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling while running an Argos store in his native Burnley, moonlighting as a stand-up comedian and die-hard fan of The Clarets and Depeche Mode. But having achieved his profession, Fr Alex quickly recognised the 17,000 inhabitants of his new parish were in dire need of help. Burnley is typical of many towns across Bri...

Graham Tomlin is a British theologian, author and Church of England bishop. Since 2022, he has led the Centre for Cultural Witness; he served as Bishop of Kensington, an area bishop in the Diocese of London from 2015 until 2022. From 2007 until 2015, he was dean then principal of St Mellitus College and is now its president. Tomlin was born in 1958. His father was a Baptist minister. He was brough...

John Lowe MBE (born 21 July 1945) is an English former professional darts player. Along with Eric Bristow and Jocky Wilson, he was known for dominating darts during the 1980s. Lowe was world champion on three occasions, in 1979, 1987 and 1993. He was also a two-time winner of the Winmau World Masters and a two-time World Cup singles champion. In total, Lowe won 15 BDO and WDF majors. He held the W...

Rev. Tom Sander Tom became Rector of St Giles-in-the-Fields in February 2021. He is also an Army Chaplain and currently serves as Padre to the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment. Tom was previously vicar of the benefice of Flamstead and Markyate Street in the Diocese of St Albans, where he also served as Rural Dean of the Wheathampstead Deanery. St Giles has long been embedded in its community and...

Jayne Ozanne is a prominent gay evangelical who works to ensure full inclusion of all LGBTI people of faith within their faith communities, and within wider society as a whole. She is Director of both the Ozanne Foundation, which works with religious organisations around the world to eliminate discrimination based on sexuality or gender in order to embrace and celebrate the equality and diversity...

Rudy Sarzo’s bass-playing resume is as remarkable as it is impressive. Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Dio, Whitesnake, the Guess Who and more; it might actually be easier to list the people this extraordinary rock bassist hasn’t played with over the past nearly five decades. Not only did Sarzo play with Randy Rhoads in Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne’s band, he also was one of Randy’s closest friends. In...

Helen King is a British classical scholar and advocate for the medical humanities. She is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University. She was previously Professor of the History of Classical Medicine and Head of the Department of Classics at the University of Reading. King was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England from 1985 to 1993 and from 2021 to 2026.As part...

Claire MxEnery is a former Detective Superintendent with Lancashire Police. She is now an Ordinand (Trainee Priest) in The Church of England. She will be ordained in Petertide in 2024 and will serve her curacy in Lancashire.

Coming From The Mill From Colne in Lancashire, the Milltown Brothers first burst onto the indie scene in 1989 with the ‘Coming From The Mill EP’ getting single of the week in NME. Second indie single ‘Which Way Should I Jump’ started a bidding war between the majors. Signing to A&M worldwide in 1990, WWSIJ was re-recorded & broke into the UK charts at Number 38. America liked it & put...

A former bricklayer, Luke cut his teeth as lay pioneer minister in Luton serving communities affected by homelessness, violence and addiction. Luke is part-time priest-in-charge of the diverse parish of St Andrew in Luton and is studying for a doctorate in practical theology at the University of Roehampton, researching mission pneumatologies in the Church of England. Luke’s teaching passions inclu...

Born to Black Country parents just inside a new decade, Pete went to school, had a paper round, dreamed and played clarinet. At age 14 he bought a bass guitar and was soon playing in various bands appearing in social clubs around the industrial West Midlands. Four years later he was invited by an old school friend to join a “new wave soul group” as yet unnamed, which later became DEXYS MIDNIGHT RU...

Born to Black Country parents just inside a new decade, Pete went to school, had a paper round, dreamed and played clarinet. At age 14 he bought a bass guitar and was soon playing in various bands appearing in social clubs around the industrial West Midlands. Four years later he was invited by an old school friend to join a “new wave soul group” as yet unnamed, which later became DEXYS MIDNIGHT RU...

A manager of a local league club has been named the longest-serving football coach in the world. Brent Peters joined Bacup Borough FC on 1 September 1997, initially expecting to stay until the end of the season. But, 25 years later and he is still at the helm of the Lancashire club - not only taking on the managerial roles, but also those of the groundsman, repair man and also driving the team&#39...

John Spencer-Barnes is a former radio broadcaster and journalist for the BBC. He was born in Dudley, England in 1961 and educated at Wolverhampton University. He began his career as a freelance broadcaster at BRMB in Birmingham and then moved to the experimental BBC service WM Heartlands in East Birmingham between 1989 and 1991. He was involved in the campaign for community radio and was News Edit...

Jason Romano is the Director of Media with Sports Spectrum and the host of the popular Sports Spectrum Podcast. For 17 years, he was an Emmy-Award winning Producer and Senior Manager at ESPN. He has created and produced content for shows such as SportsCenter, NFL LIVE, Mike and Mike in the Morning, Sunday NFL Countdown, College Gameday, Outside the Lines, MLB’s All Star Game and many more. HI, I’M...

Follow Fr Alex on Twitter/X @alexdjfrost Brand New God Cast with Sky Sports journalist Peter Smith. Peter has worked in sports journalism for many years working very closely with Manchester United and particularly Sir Alex Ferguson. Interestingly, Peter is also a Civil funeral Celebrant working with bereaved families and helping loved ones plan and prepare funeral services. It's a great interv...

Hosted by Fr Alex Frost, Vicar St Matthews Burnley, Follow on Twitter @alexdjfrost Melanie Sykes has been a face on our screens, a voice on our radios for nearly thirty years. As a presenter and broadcaster people turned to her for her humour, her honesty and insight. But between all the interviews and chat shows, is a life unseen, a story unsaid. Her journey – from up north to down south, from Ma...

Learn more of Peter Tatchell here Peter Tatchell | Human Rights, Democracy, Global Justice, LGBTI Freedom The God Cast is hosted by Fr Alex Frost, Vicar St Matthew's Burnley find him on Twitter @alexdjfrost Watch more of his interviews here (1) The God Cast with Fr Alex Frost - YouTube Purchase his book 'Our Daily Bread, Argos to The Altar, A Priests Story' here, brownsbfs.co.uk/Produc...

Charlie Bell is a priest in the Church of England (St John the Divine, Kennington, in the Diocese of Southwark) and has also published in the field of theology, with a book on psychology, sexuality and theology (Queer Holiness) and an upcoming book (May 2023) on the medical-theological interface (Light to those in darkness: total pain and the Body of Christ). Charlie is also a College Lecturer in...

On race, nationhood, belonging and Britain’s identity crisis. Sunder Katwala grew up with some identity questions to work through. As a half-Indian, Irish Catholic kid, the chequered history of post-imperial Britain seemed very personal. Yet he came to realise that, with that background, he could hardly be anything but proudly British. And feeling British was getting much easier once the banana-th...

A look back at just some of the many famous faces to have appeared on The God Cast with Fr Alex Frost. You can find Fr Alex on on Twitter @adjfrost His church here, https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/11467/ His book here, https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/our-daily-bread-one-priests-story-of-hope-and-a-communitys-resilience/alex-frost/hardback/9780008556525.html

Rev Martine Oborne is a vicar in west London and chair of Watch (Women and the Church), a group that works for equality for women in the Church of England You can follow Fr Alex on Twitter @alexdjfrost

Anthony Horrocks is not a famous name, politician, musician, comedian or priest but he has an amazing story of Addiction to recovery and this is it. Hopefully it will inspire people to look at addiction differently, and learn that recovery is possible even from the most difficult of places. I've had some incredible guests (over 130) on The God Cast, clergy, celebrities, politicians and more. T...

David Osland is a Left Wing writer and journalist.