A chaplain and former Bronski Beat member is to cover the history of same-sex desire on BBC Radio 3. Richard Coles, who was in the band and went on to help form The Communards, before studying Theology and getting himself ordained, travels to different parts of the world and looks into different time zones to examine the history and development of what we now consider to be gay, lesbian and bi-sexual orientation. Starting with evidence from the Same sex desire trail in the British Museum, which was launched to coincide with LGBT History Month 2010, Coles investigation over four half-hour programmes shows the history of same sex relations to be a complex and nuanced one than we might expect. The first programme will aired on Sunday the 18th of September at 7.45 and the series will run over four consecutive Sundays.
