Seen & Unseen Aloud

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Seen & Unseen Aloud episodes

January 21 19th January 2026: Exorcism, Slow Fashion & Cultural Change
This week, Rick Hansen talks about how his father's job as an exorcist has given him a specific frame of reference for understanding the world; Alexandra Kytka-Sharpe takes us through her learning from a year of fasting from fashion; Graham Tomlin considers what makes for profound and significant cultural change.

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26 min
January 12 12th January 2026: Change; Stranger Things; Attention and Mindfulness
In this episode, while the year is still quite new, Derek Hughes suggests that real change comes slowly; Beatrice Scudeler unearths hope in the finale of Stranger Things; Steve McMillan gives us a meditation on attention and Roger Bretherton explores the origins and future of mindfulness.
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35 min
January 05 5th January 2026: Guarded Hopefulness at the start of 2026
In this first episode of 2026, Mark Meynell ventures into the work of J.R.R. Tolkien (and others) to find a guarded hopefulness for the year ahead.
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18 min
December 29, 2025 29th December 2025: Graham Tomlin's Top 3 of 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, Graham Tomlin shares with us three of his articles, what he's been thinking about as a result of the political and social events and issues of this past year.
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28 min
December 22, 2025 22nd December 2025: Three favourite articles from 2025
In this episode, as we come towards the end of 2025, I have curated three articles that have made me stop and think this year: Paul Bradbury grieving the demise of the semi-colon; Jessica Norman understanding the big welcome for Lewis Capaldi at Glastonbury and Roger Bretherton considering the role of prayer
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24 min
December 15, 2025 15th December 2025: Shock of Christmas; Knives Out & baby Jesus being kidnapped
In this nearly-Christmas episode, Belle Tindall joins forces with CS Lewis and Dorothy L Sayers to go deep into the shocking truths buried beneath the Christmas tinsel; Krish Kandiah reviews Wake Up Dead Man and finds the Church playing a key role in the mystery; Lauren Westwood witnesses the baby Jesus being kidnapped and follows a trail of believing.
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24 min
December 08, 2025 8th December 2025: Angels; Juries & Christmas Karma
This week, Jamie Mulvaney asks us to consider why we love angels so much; after David Lammy suggests amending jury trials in the UK, George Pitcher uses a Nazarene's trial as a case study in legal efficiency; Graham Tomlin suggests Christmas Karma is contradiction in terms.
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19 min
December 01, 2025 1st December 2025: MI6; Elon Musk & the price of parenthood
This episode finds George Pitcher taking us backstage at MI6; Sam Tomin asks Elon Musk the trillion dollar question and Imogen Ball tracks just how much it costs to have children
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22 min
November 24, 2025 24th November 2025: Alan Bennett; Rationality and the Budget
This week we start with Roger Standing's review of Alan Bennett's latest film, The Choral; then Alister McGrath unpacks the terrain between the "Age of Reason" and the era of "post-truth" and finally Annika Greco Thompson discusses the possible Christian response to financial (in)security, in the lead up to the UK's Chancellor announcing the Autumn Budget.
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28 min
November 17, 2025 17th November 2025: BBC, bequeathing and being still
This week, Tim Wyatt dives into the crisis of trust and asks whether the resignations from the hierarchy will serve to rekindle trust in the BBC; Annika Greco Thompson encourages us to pass on our values as well as our wealth to the next generation and Helen Cowan poignantly explores the power of different types of stillness within wellness and illness that she witnesses as a care home nurse.
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28 min