Seen & Unseen Aloud

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Seen & Unseen Aloud episodes

September 01, 2025 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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23 min
August 25, 2025 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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24 min
August 18, 2025 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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21 min
August 11, 2025 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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28 min
August 04, 2025 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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25 min
July 28, 2025 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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26 min
July 21, 2025 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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21 min
July 14, 2025 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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22 min
July 07, 2025 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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21 min
June 30, 2025 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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22 min