He is currently the regular presenter of the weekly BBC Radio 4 programme Something Understood.
In 2009, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was interviewed on a programme talking about prayer.
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Something Understood is a weekly radio programme on BBC Radio 4 which deals with topics of religion, spirituality, and the larger questions of human life, and takes a particular spiritual theme, exploring it through speech, music, prose, and poetry.
Priestland published his autobiography, Something Understood, in 1986, a work which he hastily altered before publication to express his true feelings about Tahu Hole, who had recently died: "He was a monster in every sense."