Peter Owen-Jones (b 1957) is an English Anglican clergyman, author and television presenter.
Owen Jones dropped out of public school
at the age of 16 and went to Australia to make his fortune. Back in
Britain, he began his working life as a farm labourer in South Eastern
England and then ran a mobile disco
before moving to London where he started in advertising as a messenger
boy and worked his way up to creative director. In his late 20s and with
a wife and two children, he gave up his commercial life to follow a
calling to the Anglican ministry by enrolling at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. In early 1996 he gained notoriety when he conducted a service for the Newbury bypass protestors.[1]
In 1998, he ran three parishes in Cambridgeshire as the Rector of Haslingfield (Harlton, Great Eversden and Little Eversden), before resigning from his post in 2005, to relocate to the benefice of Glynde, West Firle and Beddingham. He was recruited by the BBC
