LUDLOW’S team rector is due to sit in the BBC’s black leather chair later today.

The Venerable Colin Williams will soon be filming for the BBC television series Mastermind.

The clergyman who is an avid reader had to select five specialist subjects that were narrowed down to two by the BBC.

In the first round he will answer questions about the reformation.

While Rev Williams will face the music in front of question master John Humphreys, Shaun Ward, director of music and clerk of works at St Laurence's Church, will be under less pressure at a Buckingham Palace garden party later today.