Seen & Unseen Aloud

As ever, we have a smogarsbord to listen to... Iwan Russell-Jones explores some 30,000 year old cave paintings; Trystan Owain Hughes asks why Veganuary still has merit and Graham Tomlin tells the story of how the biggest church in the Middle East was born in Garbage City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we dig into the (sometimes murky) world of public service: We hear from MP Danny Kruger on why we need a gentle radical revolution in political thinking around social care; we hear from Bp Graham Tomlin with his reaction to the Post Office scandal; and we hear M. Ciftci's (possibly controversial) thoughts about the Hypocratic Oath, made by the medical profession. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we come back to normal after the holiday compilations, we hear Michael Wenham answer his brother's question about Esther Rantzen and the assisted dying/suicide movement; Krish Kandiah reflects from the London Premiere of One Life and the extraordinary story of one man who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children; and Roger Bretherton dives into the era of "self belief" psychology and questions whether it works. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This second of our New Year compilations has been put together by Belle Tindall, Writer for the Centre for Cultural Witness and Seen & Unseen and Co-host of the Re-enchanting Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the start of a new year, Bishop Graham Tomlin - Director of the Centre for Cultural Witness (which publishes Seen & Unseen and hosts the Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast) looks back over his favourite articles of 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second of our Christmas compilations, Senior Editor of Seen & Unseen, Nick Jones, chooses his favourite articles from Seen & Unseen from 2023 - sit back and enjoy a curated stroll down memory lane and see if we've picked your favourites... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 bestseller; and dining in a different culture lets Belle Tindall contemplate struggle and belonging across the heartlands of the Middle East. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.