Broadcaster
Coles still does broadcasting work, which he describes as "just showing off", including Nightwaves on BBC Radio 3 which he formerly presented, and Newsnight Review on BBC Two. On 15 May 2008 he was on the BBC Radio 4 panel game show Heresy and he has twice appeared as a guest on the topical BBC Television news quiz Have I Got News for You, first in 1994 and then in May 2009. Coles presented a special edition of Songs of Praise on 10 January 2010. He was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 comedy Heresy in May 2010 and a Children in Need special of the BBC Four quiz Only Connect in November of the same year. Having regularly guest-hosted the Radio 4 programme Saturday Live, while regular host Fi Glover was on maternity leave from 2008 to 2009, Coles replaced Glover permanently in 2011.
On 1 September 2011, he presented a short piece on his home town and parish of Finedon for the Radio 4 programme You and Yours.
From 2011 he has been on the board of Wellingborough Homes, a social enterprise providing housing and community support for the borough of Wellingborough.
In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Northampton and also became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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