Bio:
taught social theology and ethics at St John’s College, Nottingham (now St John’s School of Mission) from 1984 to 2015. He was director of Kingdom Trust, a consultancy on applied social ethics, from 1984 to 2016, and a director and then chair of Lion Hudson Publishing from 1998 to 2015.
He is now national disability adviser for the Church of England and vice-president of Livability. His many books include Men and Masculinity: From power to love (Hodder & Stoughton, 1992) and The Enabled Life: Christianity in a disabling world (SPCK, 2013).
For High Profile, Roy has interviewed Marina Abramović, Gerry Adams, Kate Adie, Peter Akinola, Douglas Alexander, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Maya Angelou, Simon Armitage, Franny Armstrong, Paddy Ashdown, Margaret Atwood, Zaki Badawi, Julian Baggini, Steve Baker, Joan Bakewell, Omar Bakri Muhammad, Jonathan Bartley, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Peter Bazalgette, Alan Beith, Martin Bell, Rob Bell, Tony Benn, Natalie Bennett, Susan Blackmore, Tony Blair, Phillip Blond, David Blunkett, Virginia Bottomley, Melvyn Bragg, Billy Bragg, Richard Branson, Elaine Brown, Julie Burchill, Andy Burnham, Vince Cable, Menzies Campbell, Bea Campbell, Tony Campolo, George Carey, John Carey, Martin Carthy, Shami Chakrabarti, Steve Chalke, Lynda Chalker, Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, Nick Clegg, Max Clifford, Paulo Coelho, Francis Collins, Wendy Cope, Jeremy Corbyn, Douglas Coupland, Jon Cruddas, Janet Daley, Tam Dalyell, Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Alain de Botton, Judi Dench, Daniel Dennett, Donald Dewar, Nadine Dorries, Iain Duncan Smith, Terry Eagleton, Michael Eavis, Ben Elton, Tracey Emin, Brian Eno, Amitai Etzioni, Nigel Farage, Niall Ferguson, Frank Field, Daniel Finkelstein, Kate Forbes, Matthew Fox, Claire Fox, George Galloway, Alan Garner, William Gibson, Maurice Glasman, Zac Goldsmith, Jane Goodall, Antony Gormley, Michael Gove, John Gray, Peter Greenaway, Brian Greene, Susan Greenfield, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Dominic Grieve, Nick Griffin, Katharine Hamnett, Charles Handy, Johann Hari, Harriet Harman, Stanley Hauerwas, Noreena Hertz, Werner Herzog, Polly Higgins, Ian Hislop, Peter Hitchens, Tom Holland, Richard Holloway, Susan Howatch, Darcus Howe, Simon Hughes, John Hume, John Humphrys, Will Hutton, Armando Iannucci, Michael Ignatieff, Richard Ingrams, Virginia Ironside, Dafydd Iwan, Mike Jackson, Bianca Jagger, Oliver James, Simon Jenkins, David Jenkins, Boris Johnson, Owen Jones, Steve Jones, Tony Juniper, Trevor Kavanagh, Charles Kennedy, Helena Kennedy, Bruce Kent, Satish Kumar, Hans Küng, David Lammy, Mike Leigh, Annie Lennox, Martyn Lewis, Daniel Libeskind, Rod Liddle, Peter Lilley, Ken Loach, Bjørn Lomborg, James Lovelock, Caroline Lucas, Mary McAleese, Ellen MacArthur, Len McCluskey, Neil MacGregor, Martin McGuinness, Alastair McIntosh, James Mackay, Bill McKibben, James MacMillan, Kate Manne, Michael Mansfield, Andrew Marr, Francesca Martinez, Paul Mason, Brian Mawhinney, Theresa May, Peter Melchett, Mary Midgley, Khalid Mish’al, Andrew Mitchell, Zara Mohammed, Jürgen Moltmann, George Monbiot, John Monks, Suzanne Moore, Charles Moore, Layla Moran, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Mo Mowlam, Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Jenni Murray, Kumi Naidoo, Michael Nazir-Ali, Julia Neuberger, Barry Norman, James O’Brien, Frances O’Grady, Peter Oborne, Cristina Odone, Ben Okri, Chris Packham, Camille Paglia, Ian Paisley, Tony Parsons, Chris Patten, Jeremy Paxman, John Peel, Rowan Pelling, Roger Penrose, Melanie Phillips, John Pilger, Steven Pinker, Jonathon Porritt, Michael Portillo, Terry Pratchett, Peter Preston, Philip Pullman, David Puttnam, Tariq Ramadan, Claire Rayner, Martin Rees, Gene Robinson, Anita Roddick, Richard Rogers, Jon Ronson, Michael Rosen, Carlo Rovelli, Alan Rusbridger, Jonathan Sacks, Iqbal Sacranie, Ash Sarkar, Roger Scruton, Will Self, Amartya Sen, Elif Şafak, David Sheppard, Clare Short, Mona Siddiqui, Peter Singer, Indarjit Singh, Lemn Sissay, Robert Skidelsky, Dennis Skinner, Chris Smith, Patti Smith, Jon Snow, Gloria Steinem, Rory Stewart, Joseph Stiglitz, John Stott, Peter Tatchell, John Tavener, Sam Taylor-Wood, Kae Tempest, Mark Thomas, Mark Thompson, Polly Toynbee, David Trimble, Desmond Tutu, Jim Wallis, Mary Warnock, Sayeeda Warsi, Tom Watson, Ruby Wax, Steven Weinberg, Fay Weldon, Francis Wheen, Ann Widdecombe, Frank Wilczek, David Willetts, Shirley Williams, Rowan Williams, Jacqueline Wilson, E O Wilson, Robert Winston, Jeanette Winterson, Naomi Wolf, Lewis Wolpert, Harry Woolf, Salma Yaqoob, Shagufta Yaqub, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, Thom Yorke, Hugo Young, Toby Young, Benjamin Zephaniah, Slavoj Žižek and A review of the 'Third Way' years.
