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  "name": "Peter Owen-Jones",
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  "description": "Peter Owen-Jones (b 1957) is an English Anglican clergyman, author and television presenter.\n\nOwen Jones dropped out of public school\n\n at the age of 16 and went to Australia to make his fortune. Back in \n\nBritain, he began his working life as a farm labourer in South Eastern \n\nEngland and then ran a mobile disco\n\n before moving to London where he started in advertising as a messenger \n\nboy and worked his way up to creative director. In his late 20s and with\n\n a wife and two children, he gave up his commercial life to follow a \n\ncalling 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]\n\nIn 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\n\n to front a series of religious television programmes which would look \n\nat different aspects of Christian and other faiths where he has received\n\n critical acclaim from many quarters.[2][not in citation given]\n\nHe is married to Jac and as of May 2010 has four children - India, 21, Jonson, 18, Harris, 16, and Eden, 15. [3]\n\nIn his BBC documentary How to Live a Simple Life (2009),[4] Owen-Jones tried to live a life without money, in the footsteps of Saint Francis of Assisi. His 2010 documentary, The Lost Gospels, discussed the Apocryphal Gospels\n\n which were omitted from the canon of the New Testament, and Owen-Jones \n\nconsiders how their contents might have altered Christian theology if \n\nthey had not been suppressed.",
  "birthDate": "1957-03-13",
  "birthPlace": "South London, England",
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      "title": "The Lost Gospels",
      "year": "2008",
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