Introducing ... The Crown Uncovered, Fit For A King

Wayfarer

Coming on the 6th of May .... This season of the Podcast will concentrate on what has been learned from the 2023 Coronation. We are interested in what is of value in the rite, and what do contributors consider needs to be held on to? There will be discussion of what not included in 2023, which was integral to the 1953 rite, and what the significance of that might be liturgically and constitutionally. The very particular nature of the rite, as encompassing matters of Church and State under one umbrella, will mean that religious and constitutional questions will be explored in tandem.

Editors/Presenters

The Revd Dr Anders Bergquist
Has been the Vicar of St John’s Wood since 2002. Born of Swedish parents and brought up in various parts of Europe and the Middle East, Anders trained as an archaeologist in Cambridge, where he wrote his PhD on the later prehistory of Transylvania. He then studied theology at Oxford, and was ordained in St Albans diocese in 1986. He returned to Cambridge in 1989 to teach at Westcott House Theological College, and served as President of the Cambridge Theological Federation 1995-7. He was a Residentiary Canon at St Alban’s Cathedral, and was responsible for the continuing theological education and professional development of clergy and Readers in St Albans diocese. Outside the parish, Anders is involved at national level in ecumenical work with the Scandinavian and Baltic churches and as Consultant to the Church of England’s Liturgical Commission.

The Revd Canon William Gulliford
Has two jobs. He is Vicar of St Mark’s Regent’s Park, the neighbouring parish to St John’s Wood, and he serves Director of Ordinands for the Diocese in Europe. He is a Canon of Gibraltar Cathedral. He was asked to do commentary for TF1 for the late Queen’s funeral in September 2022, and was asked to return in May 2023, to be part of the commentary team for King Charles III’s Coronation. He prepared a study guide for the 13 other Diocese in Europe clergy who assisted other national broadcasters across Europe for the Coronation. He gave lectures in Oxford and Cambridge in the lead up to the Coronation and wrote an article on the significance of the rite for The Critic in May 2023. Amongst others involved in this project, he contributed to the two conferences at King’s College London, before and after the Coronation, arranged by Dr Michael Kandiah.
Producer

The Revd Emily Kolltveit
Has had a career in professional music making since childhood, after a training at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. She was a founder member of a Metal Band as well as a member of Mediaeval Baebes an all women’s musical ensemble. She trained for ministry at Ripon College, Cuddesdon and after serving her curacy at St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, she is now priest in charge of St Jude’s on the Hill Hampstead Garden Suburb. She and her husband Are, produce and edit the podcast from their studio in NW11.