Seen & Unseen Aloud

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Seen & Unseen Aloud episodes

November 10, 2025 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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27 min
November 03, 2025 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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30 min
October 27, 2025 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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19 min
October 20, 2025 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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23 min
October 13, 2025 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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22 min
October 06, 2025 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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22 min
September 29, 2025 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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24 min
September 22, 2025 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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25 min
September 15, 2025 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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26 min
September 08, 2025 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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25 min