Simon Caldwell meets the young priest who runs a Catholic radio station from a priory in north London.

Fr Toby Lees, a young Dominican priest of great energy and charisma, levels his gaze as he summarises the value of Radio Maria England, the youngest daughter of an international network of Catholic radio stations which each day together reach an audience of more than 500 million people.

“On a most basic level, if as a radio station we only have 5,000 listeners in a day that still makes us the biggest daily parish in the country,” he says.