Seen & Unseen Aloud

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Seen & Unseen Aloud episodes

September 09, 2024 9th September 2024: Inside Out, Wild God and Grenfell's Tale of Two Towers
This week we enter a world of high drama - internally we voyage with Henna Cundill through the spiritual potential of the Inside Out films; Belle Tindall takes us on an emotional ride through Nick Cave's new album, Wild God; and Graham Tomlin challenges us to see The Grenfell Tower Inquiry as a significant cultural moment to reflect personally and nationally on the way we treat each other.
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30 min
September 01, 2024 2nd September 2024: how to find meaning - in Olympic gold; music and the big questions of life
This week we contemplate the challenges of winning and losing as Julia Kendal asks what Simone Biles might be doing today; Oliver Wright explores the relationship between religion and music and Silvianne & Barnabas Aspray ask why religion and faith aren't dying any time soon
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27 min
August 26, 2024 26th August 2024: paganism, secularism and faith found in publishing and in the Olympics
This week's episode finds George Pitcher hoping that faith and religion are being given a revival in the world of publishing and Graham Tomlin explores the Paris Olympics for evidence of the choice between faith, secularism and modern paganism
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24 min
August 12, 2024 12th August 2024: Summer Box Set Special: Summer Holidays
In this Summer Box Set Special, Jamie Mulvaney thinks about third spaces and when the journey is the destination; Natalie Garrett makes a case for taking a holiday and Roger Bretherton talks us through how to get the best out of our downtime
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23 min
July 29, 2024 29th July 2024: Summer Box Set special: Emerson Csorba on politics, purpose and people encounters
Our Summer Box Set Special is dedicated to Emerson Csorba. He talks us through US politics with a focus on James Baker; he asks what's the point of purpose and how do we find it? and he contemplates the power of supposedly random encounters with people.
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35 min
July 15, 2024 15th July 2024: Myth maketh meaning; the Disneyfication of the monasteries and mistake make us human
In the second of our Summer episodes, Simon Horobin unpacks CS Lewis's assertion that great stories allow ideas to be experienced rather than merely thought about; James Cary explores the Disneyfication of the Monasteries in Shardlake and Sylvianne Aspray asserts that it's our mistakes that set us apart from the machines.
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24 min
July 01, 2024 1st July 2024: the Election, the Euros, the possibility of revival and betting on eternity
In this episode, we make a nod to the events of the week as Joel Pierce asks if political practice can capture something heavenly; Sam Tomlin talks national identity amidst the Euros; Abigail Frymann Rouch asks whether we may be we moving beyond the secular scepticism of religion and James Sampson-Foster invites us to place a bet on our eternal destination.

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38 min
June 24, 2024 24th June 2024: the companionship of reading, the benefit of enemies and the power of mercy
This week, we slow down with Jessica Brown and consider the companionship to be found in reading with others; Henna Cundill asks whether loving our enemies (even within the political realm) can be beneficial for personal growth and Natalie Williams contemplates the extraordinary power of mercy within the workings of society
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23 min
June 17, 2024 17th June 2024: How we decide what is true rests on where we start from: God, football and politics
This week we take a close look at how we think: Graham Tomlin considers the different thought paradigms of Richard Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Simon Burton-Jones delves into the psychology of football fans and Barnabas Aspray thinks about what happens when political dialogue gives way to animal-like culture war.

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26 min
June 10, 2024 10th June 2024: Undemocratic dairy; SciFi theology and Tears of Gold
This week, Yaroslav Walker argues that Democracy and Dairy just don't mix; Roger Bretherton explores the philosophy / theology of Netflix's The Three Body Problem and Jane Cacouris is moved by artist Hannah Thomas' visceral and moving portraits which offer a glimpse into suffering, and healing, souls.
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33 min