Seen & Unseen Aloud

For the Christmas season, the Team at Seen & Unseen Aloud have put together Christmas Compilations from the past year: sit back and enjoy a curated stroll down memory lane - have we picked your favourites? This week's compilation has been chosen by Seen & Unseen Aloud's Narrator, Natalie Garrett. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode we get a lesson in de-coding the hidden messages in Christmas carols from Ian Bradley; in a world of devastation, J.S. Averill shares poignant and honest feelings of loss and hopeless and the Advent possibility of not being overcome; Barnabas Aspray mines the earth-shaking consequences of Christmas Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we are exploring the surprising and different ways we find out about ourselves and the stories we inhabit - Graham Tomlin dives into the moral algorithms of social media; Adrian Urquidez and Neal Presa tell stories of deep friendship and Harry Gibbins unpacks Dungeons & Dragons' philosophical toolkit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode, we get a guided tour of some impactful exhibits as Robert Wright visits the UK's only Faith Museum, in Bishop Auckland, and hears how its funder hopes to inspire reflection on the divine; 60 years after its author’s death, The Screwtape Letters image of hell as an unscrupulous business is still relevant. Simon Horobin tells how C.S. Lewis came to author the influential best...

This week we consider the power of attention - the giving and receiving of it and its power for healing but also the complexities of fame; Justine Toh considers what Simone Weil's philosophy of attention has to say to western culture's attention battles; Jamie Mulvaney takes us to the National Portrait Gallery in London to look at Sir Paul McCartney's unseen portraits of the Beatles; James Cary sp...

This week we hear Julie Canlis explaining the church's season of Ordinary Time and why it's so special; we continue to follow Ian Hamlin on his adventures as he takes us to some significant memorials of American and human history; Ryan Gilfeather asks questions about human dignity and worth in the context of the Israel/Hamas war Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Lydia Dugdale celebrates All Saints Day by remembering the lost of art dying well; George Pitcher observes that simple calls for peace are often against the grain of power, yet many still yearn for it, even when faced with complexities and impossibilities; Ian Hamlin talks about the merging of stories and their power to inspire and change the world, as he continues on the trail to find...

In this episode Nick Brewer contemplates becoming a Dad and what he has learned from the love of his own father; Henna Cundill follows her nose on an emotional scent trail from childhood to adulthood and, as part of our How to Die Well series, Natalie Garrett talks about her experience of bereavement and what death has taught her about life Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

This week Graham Tomlin talks about the need for courageous leadership as the only hope for the intractable war in the Middle East; on the 100th anniversary of Disney, Jared Stacy declares there's much more to Disney than a mouse and Tory Baucum comments on the modern-day love story of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift being played out on a very public stage Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

The line up for this week's episode sounds like the start of a joke.... but it's actually very thought-provoking. Roger Bretherton asks the age old question, "why are all Christians in movies crazy?"; Theodore Brun mourns the loss of the Sycamore Gap Tree and explores what it's demise can teach us; Belle Tindall takes us backstage to her conversation with Frank Skinner and the surprise that Christ...

This week Belle Tindall takes us behind the scenes in British politics with Rory Stewart's "tell all" published memoir; Robert Wright explores the powerful motivation of faith at work in food banks in the midst of the cost of living crisis; and Lauren Windle finds little charm in Snow White's Prince Charming as Disney celebrates its centenary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

This week we travel with Ian Hamlin through the challenges of starting a sabbatical and how difficult (and important) taking "time out" can be; Krish Kandiah gives us a review of Ken Loach's new film "The Old Oak" and what it tells us about the power of community; Stefani Ruper, in the last of her series Confessions of an Atheist Philosopher plots the course from distrust to trust and asks the imp...

This week we explore the human condition: James Ray seeks the Authentic Man in answer to the question of the Problem with Men; Henna Cundill takes a dive into the murky shallows of cancel culture and shame's historic role in guarding community boundaries; Belle Tindall goes to the Seven Psalms Exhibition to experience the songs and sketches of Paul Simon and Charlie Mackesy's collaboration and fin...

In the last volume of the Seven Deadly Sins, Graham Tomlin looks at what’s lost to life when sloth sets in; while also digesting gluttony’s distorting obsession with food. Our series is brought to a reflective conclusion by psychologist Roger Bretherton as he turns sin back to front with a subversive proposition: we don’t understand sin because we don’t understand goodness. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

This week we have a smorgasbord of culture: Nathan Betts talks about Taylor's truth and how her superstar authenticity appeals; Musicologist Daniel Chua explores the faith found in the music of the hero of humanism, Beethoven; music may be the food of love but Matthew Croasmun explains how food is the nexus of relationships. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we mark the beginning of the school year with Henna Cundill taking an honest look beyond headlines about school refusers and ghost children; Yaroslav Walker ambles down an academic memory lane reminding us of back to school movies of the last 5 decades; George Pitcher gives us a lesson in looking evil squarely in the face Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we consider the character of Justice, as seen through the Lucy Letby case; we take a leisurely stroll through the ills of Sloth with Graham Tomlin and discover the joys of seeing slowly with Alex Hughes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this second volume of the Seven Deadly Sins, we hear Belle Tindall exploring how Lust minimises or sensationalises sex and desire; we find James Mumford encountering Anger, reflecting that its object is no mere object; and Jonathan Aitken identifies Pride as egotism with a capital E and the cause of his own royal flush of crises Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's episode takes an insider's tour of the Edinburgh Fringe experience with James Cary; a wander through a couple of classics of English literature with Graham Tomlin seeking answers to the question of loneliness; and we read an open letter by Narnia fan John Kuhrt to a daunted Hollywood director, on helping her handle the Great Story Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

This week we have the usual eclectic mix: we hear the second part of the confessions of an atheist series (see the website for other articles) by Stefani Ruper; we hear about the reassurance Graham Tomlin finds in the unpredictability of the football season; and we hear something of the powerful reality of a life controlled by personal pride as written by former MP (now Prison Chaplain) Jonathan A...

The first volume of our series on the Seven Deadly Sins , this volume comprises an introduction to sin itself as Graham Tomlin introduces the idea of a spiritual/moral health check. We hear Roger Bretherton's take on envy (jealousy's evil cousin) and Jane Williams' consideration of greed . Stay tuned for further volumes exploring the other five... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

This week we travel to the Andes - listening to the music of a garden with Anthony Baker; back in time to find King Edward I meeting a Chinese monk in Bordeaux with Benjamin Sharkey; and into the age of re-enchanting and the related brandification of spiritual experience with Daniel Kim. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's episode offers us 2 articles thinking deeply about the potential shallows of Barbieland - Lauren Windle's The Good the Bad and the Barbie and Belle Tindall's thoughtful insights into Billie Eilish's soundtrack song What was I made for? - and then to bring us crashing back into the Real World, Jon Kuhrt explores why "Begging bothers us tremendously". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

This is the third episode in our series of Summer Specials: Belle Tindall - Reporter for Seen and Unseen and co-host of the Re-Enchanting podcast - chooses and narrates a trilogy of powerhouse women: Chasing the Rains by Jane Cacouris; Trusting her Experience by Jane Williams and Diary of an Invisible war by Lika Zakaryan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is the second in our series of Summer Specials with guest narrators. This week we hear from the Rt Rev'd Graham Tomlin as he narrates Jane Canlis' article about the healing power of the F-word and his own article claiming the language of politics cannot domesticate religion; we also hear Paula Hynd's choice, written by Belle Tindall, A Sky Full of Stars: lessons on awe from Coldplay's...