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Seen & Unseen Aloud
Seen & Unseen
169 episodes
4 days ago
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Discover Seen & Unseen articles. The best writing curated by our editors read aloud, sharing Christian perspectives on just about everything. 

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Seen & Unseen Aloud
10th November 2025: Shame, Remembrance and Alice Roberts
In this week's episode, Belle Tindall considers both Jacob Elordi and Zadie Smith's take on shame, and presents her own; Henna Cundill asks why too much emotional expression seems to be frowned upon at Remembrance and the Cenotaph; Jonathan Rowlands gives his personal (and very strong) opinions on Alice Roberts' book Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

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4 days ago
26 minutes 59 seconds

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3rd November 2025: Eccles, Older Brothers and a King & a Pope
This week, Derek Hughes tells the story of how a tiny congregation in a forgotten town tried something that changed their community for the better; Will Fagan watches Peaky Blinders and House of Guinness, to see how Steven Knight shows being needed—not being perfect—transforms people; and Graham Tomlin unpacks the historical significance and the cultural hope of King Charles and the Pope praying together

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1 week ago
29 minutes 47 seconds

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27th October 2025: shifting seasons; Ruth & Boaz and Big Tech
In this episode Rachael Newham considers the seasons and what we can learn from embracing the changes; Giles Gough reviews the Netflix movie version of the biblical story of Ruth & Boaz; Jean Kabasomi takes us through her experiences of Big Tech and asks whether we are being gaslit into waste

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2 weeks ago
18 minutes 5 seconds

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20th October 2025: a Wild Belle, Sarah Mullally and Defending our Girls

In this episode, Jonathan Evens takes us to Union Chapel where Natalie Bergman's soul-soaked set turned personal tragedy into communal celebration; George Pitcher evokes historical precedent for why Sarah Mullally’s appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury is about more than just breaking the stained-glass ceiling and Belle Tindall passionately suggests that “Defending our girls” is less about safety, more about scapegoating (please be aware of potentially triggering content in this last article).




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3 weeks ago
22 minutes 30 seconds

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13th October 2025: Taylor Swift; the ABC & the Anti-Christ
This episode takes us from Belle Tindall's review of Taylor Swift's new album, via Jack Nicholson talking about Peter Thiel and the Anti-Christ, to Graham Tomlin's advice to the new Archbishop of Canterbury

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1 month ago
21 minutes 48 seconds

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6th October 2025: Sacraments at Anfield; behaviour at the Ryder Cup & thinking in cafés

In this week's episode, Jonathan Rowlands explores the relationship between trauma and sacraments as he visits Anfield; Graham Tomlin asks whether a loss of an "ultimate" is the reason behind the recent behaviour at the Ryder Cup and Joshua Nurcombe-Pike explores the big thinking that goes on in the midst of cafe culture.




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1 month ago
21 minutes 49 seconds

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29th September 2025: Severance, child poverty & what makes us human
This week, Rick Hansen explores the worlds of Apple TV's Severance through the lens of Blaise Pascal; George Pitcher asks how a supposedly "Godly nation" can have such extensive levels child poverty and Claire Williams asks the biggest question of all, what makes us human?

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1 month ago
23 minutes 23 seconds

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22nd September 2025: Protests; Demonic AI Chatbots & Charlie Kirk

This week, Thomas Sharpe gives us an on-the-ground view of the protests against the protests in Trafalgar Square; Gabrielle Thomas asks whether AI chatbots are demonic and Graham Tomlin dives deep into the event of Charlie Kirk's murder.



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1 month ago
24 minutes 8 seconds

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15th September 2025: nuanced thought; theological debate & the summer we turned romantic
This week, Graham Tomlin suggests we have much to learn about nuanced cultural debate from the writers of the Nicene Creed; Henna Cundill agrees as she explores how helpful studying theology is for compassionate, engaged debate in all spheres of life; Belle Tindall takes a deep dive into humanity's propensity for romance and marriage.

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2 months ago
25 minutes 19 seconds

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8th September 2025: Ed Sheeran's Irishness; Being school-ready & Tim Burton's Wednesday
This week, Julia Kendal looks beyond the flags flying to Ed Sheeran's (and our own) sense of national belonging; Henna Cundill asks whether the Education Secretary's new plans will genuinely help our children become school ready and life ready; Lauren Westwood explores Tim Burton's world of the outsider in Netflix's Wednesday.

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2 months ago
24 minutes 23 seconds

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1st September 2025: Wallis Island; Thursday Murder Club and Voting at 16

In this episode, Steve Dew-Jones finds his new favourite film in The Ballad of Wallis Island; Theodore Brun traces our obsession with cosy crime from Dostoyevsky to the Thursday Murder Club and Graham Tomlin reckons adolescence should be a safe space to be daft, not voting in elections.



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2 months ago
22 minutes 17 seconds

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25th August 2025: Perfect Job; Bitcoin & Molly Mae
In this episode, Thomas Sharpe questions the vocational shame found on LinkedIn; Laurence Fletcher explores the rise of crypto evangelism; Susan Gray goes virtually travelling with Molly-Mae Hague.

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2 months ago
23 minutes 40 seconds

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18th August 2025: Football, Disney and ChatGPT
In this episode, Henry Corbett asks why fans are so invested in football; Natalie Garrett disobeys Disney and questions happiness; and Rick Hansen has a profound conversation with ChatGPT

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2 months ago
20 minutes 24 seconds

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11th August 2025: Language, Danny Kruger and the Fantastic Four

This week, Jonathan Rowlands suggests that learning other languages opens up other ways of experiencing the world; Graham Tomlin responds to Danny Kruger and his critics; Krish Kandiah shares what the Fantastic Four taught him about family, truth and navigating the end of the world.



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3 months ago
27 minutes 12 seconds

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4th August 2025: Portofino; Neurodiversity diagnoses; McGovern's Unforgiveable

This week, George Pitcher takes us on our tour of the Portofino "bubble"; Henna Cundill has read Suzanne O'Sullivan's book and suggests we don't have an over-diagnosis problem, we have a society problem; and Henry Corbett describes Jimmy McGovern's brave storytelling in Unforgiveable and asks whether there is such a thing as an unforgiveable sin.



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3 months ago
24 minutes 6 seconds

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28th July 2025: Superman; the Seaside and the Salt Path
This week, Yaroslav Walker gives us his thoughts on the new Superman movie; Paul Bradbury talks about why we all like to be beside the seaside, and why it's good for us; in the wake of the Salt Path revelations, Susan Gray explores the feelings we experience when we've been taken in, or scammed.

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3 months ago
25 minutes 38 seconds

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21st July 2025: Don Quixote and the Life of Christ at Wintershall
This week we explore the world of art in literature and drama: Jonathan Rowlands feels liberated by reading Don Quixote and Rachel Luckett is uncharacteristically effusive about her experience attending The Life of Christ at Wintershall.

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3 months ago
20 minutes 26 seconds

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14th July 2025: Beyoncé; Reality and The Four Seasons
In today's episode, Lauren Windle goes to a Beyoncé concert and contemplates the idolatry of Queen B; Simon Burton-Jones explores how we may be extinguishing reality; and Giles Gough watches The Four Seasons and Dying for Sex to find the most common question of humanity: “What does it mean to live a full life?”  

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4 months ago
21 minutes 55 seconds

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7th July 2025: Lewis Capaldi; Angels and Istanbul
This week, Jessica Norman welcomes Lewis Capaldi back to the Glastonbury stage; George Pitcher introduces us to some Angels called Melanie and Dave; and Becky Ruth writes us a letter from Istanbul and talks neighbours

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4 months ago
20 minutes 32 seconds

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30th June 2025: Prison Fellowship; Spotless Minds & a Culture of Death

This week, Daniel Bey shares with us four things he's learnt from working with prisoners; Beatrice Scudeler has discovered Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 20 years on and unearths helpful wisdom for her own trauma; Graham Tomlin asks what will stop the culture of death that libertarian Britain has embraced?



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4 months ago
21 minutes 29 seconds

Seen & Unseen Aloud
Discover Seen & Unseen articles. The best writing curated by our editors read aloud, sharing Christian perspectives on just about everything. 

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