Malcolm Doney

Malcolm Doney grew up under the flight path for Heathrow Airport. He studied Fine Art at St Martin’s School of Art before pursuing a writing career in journalism, advertising and broadcasting. 

He has produced words for factual TV, radio, magazines and newspapers and written ten books. He is a contributor to BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought, and Radio 4’s Something Understood. 

In his mid-fifties, he was ordained as a priest in the Church of England and volunteers at his parish church in Suffolk. He describes himself as an ‘agnostic Christian’. 

He has recently returned to art practice, having moved to coastal Suffolk, and had two solo exhibitions in 2022. 

He is married to writer and curator, Meryl, and they have two grown up children.
 

Martin Wroe is married to Meg, a painter, and together they have been raised by three children. 

He got into journalism while studying theology and ended up on the staff of the Independent and later the Observer. He has had longtime collaborations with the Greenbelt Arts Festival, the human rights NGO Amos Trust and the rock band U2. 

He contributes to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, is an associate member of the Iona Community and a while back accidentally became an Anglican priest. 

He was late to understand that religions are poems and tries to write one most days. His most recent book of poems is Julian Of Norwich’s Teabag.