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Seen & Unseen Aloud episodes

March 30 30th March 2026: Quiet Faith; the Manosphere & how Sin explains the Epstein story
In this episode, Graham Tomlin addresses the flawed data in the "Quiet Revival" and explores the power of quiet faith; Tim Yearsley shares his personal reaction to Louis Theroux's documentary about the "Manosphere"; and Jonny Torrance asks why people do terrible things and how an understanding of Sin helps us understand the unfolding story of the Epstein files.
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33 min
March 23 23rd March 2026: S&U's 3rd Birthday; Death & Life; the Oscars
This month Seen & Unseen celebrates 3 years. In this episode, Graham Tomlin contemplates how much the world has changed in 3 years; Barnabas Aspray considers life and rebirth and Belle Tindall-Riley writes our 2,000th article - all about the Oscars.
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25 min
March 16 16th March 2026: James van der Beek; the moral imagination of the Left and parking with empathy
In this episode, Arabella Moore-Smith dives into actor James Van Der Beek’s story to discover what it reveals about love; Belle Tindall-Riley ruminates on an interview between Trevor Noah and NYV Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, asking why the Left keeps misplacing its moral imagination; and Jonathan Rowlands discusses the thorny moral issues of parking at the supermarket.
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22 min
March 09 9th March 2026: Churchyard thoughts; Innocent questions & Outdated legal OS
In this episode, Natalie Garrett shares some life-framing thoughts from a churchyard; Alex Stewart unpacks the UK's legal operating system and Roger Bretherton asserts that there is no such thing as an "innocent question".
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27 min
March 02 2nd March 2026: Dancing Robots; Small Prophets & Digital Lent
In this episode, Josh Hinton asks why everything good we make must also be terrifying; Susan Gray watches Small Prophets and how it quietly restores dreaming of the future to our screens and Graham Tomlin suggests Lent is vital for our digital future

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23 min
February 23 23rd February 2026: Elizabeth Day; Alex Pretti and Shooting Up
In this episode, Belle Tindall-Riley explores Elizabeth Day’s psychic call and the crisis of talking to ourselves; George Pitcher asks how a single moment can reveal what martyrdom really means and Jonathan Tepper tells us how a boyhood among addicts reframes today’s noisy battles over belief.
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25 min
February 16 16th February 2026: Euphoria; Bridgerton and A Third Way
This week, Alex Knole takes us into the euphoric feeling when music takes us to the place of touching Heaven; Bex Chapman explores the theme of class in Bridgerton's latest season and Jamie Mulvaney forges a potential third way between awful and awesome
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28 min
February 09 9th February 2026: Hamnet; the Odyssey and AI
This week, Giles Gough reviews the movie Hamnet, how it turns a literary ghost into a living pulse; Roger Bretherton considers how old epics (like The Odyssey) and cosmic stories still shape who we become and K.K. Yeo explores how old wisdom meets new machines in our search for meaning and the role of AI in our midst.
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26 min
February 02 2nd February 2026: Burnham; Beckhams and Broken Britain
This week, Paul Woolley examines the King of the North’s career and how it exposes the tension between political drive and public credibility; Lauren Westwood explores how the broken Beckhams expose our universal need for a way back and Graham Tomlin suggests that every society cracks - not just Britain - and why that’s not the whole story.
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22 min
January 26 26th January 2026: Reverends in Football; Identity in Illness; Trump's Powerful Wanting
In this episode, Henry Corbett (Chaplain to Everton Football Club) tells the story of how unlikely founders shaped the game we love today; nurse Helen Cowan talks about how being recognised by name protects dignity, even at the end of life; George Pitcher explores the concept of peace and how it falters when power becomes the only currency.
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24 min