I met one of Swindon’s many Wogan fans recently who had heard me on the show.

She looked a bit surprised when she saw me for the first time and explained that she had expected a much larger lady with long silver hair!

I laughed to think that my voice could so vividly paint a picture so very different from what I actually look like.

In fact I think she was a bit disappointed when she saw me and preferred her own idea of what I should have looked like!

We attach much importance to faces and looks these days and I was fascinated as I watched the Son of God programme and saw a reconstruction of how Jesus might have looked.

I always believed Jesus had a thin face, with long straight hair and blue eyes.

But that was well and truly shattered by the programme and I’m sure it came as a shock to many viewers.

People living 2,000 years ago were also shocked by how ordinary Jesus looked.

They were expecting their Messiah to be a powerful king with military strength - but instead they saw an ordinary carpenter whose only followers were a few fishermen.

So they crucified Christ because He didn't meet their expectations.

Bahá'u'lláh, Founder of the Bahá'í Faith in the mid-19th century, didn't meet the expectations of the people of His time either.

So they chained Him up in the worst of prisons because He taught about the unity of all races and religions.

Again, people failed to recognise the true identity of Bahá'u'lláh, just as people before had failed to recognise Christ.

This reminds me of a story of a king who would dress in ordinary clothes to get closer to his people.

Most folk didn't know the king without his royal robes, but others immediately recognised him, despite his ordinary clothes.

So maybe a different kind of sight, an inner sight, is needed if we're to recognise the King in any clothes - be they clothes of a carpenter like Jesus, or the rags of a prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh.