Seen & Unseen Aloud

In this episode, Graham Tomlin addresses the flawed data in the "Quiet Revival" and explores the power of quiet faith; Tim Yearsley shares his personal reaction to Louis Theroux's documentary about the "Manosphere"; and Jonny Torrance asks why people do terrible things and how an understanding of Sin helps us understand the unfolding story of the Epstein files.

This month Seen & Unseen celebrates 3 years. In this episode, Graham Tomlin contemplates how much the world has changed in 3 years; Barnabas Aspray considers life and rebirth and Belle Tindall-Riley writes our 2,000th article - all about the Oscars.

In this episode, Arabella Moore-Smith dives into actor James Van Der Beek’s story to discover what it reveals about love; Belle Tindall-Riley ruminates on an interview between Trevor Noah and NYV Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, asking why the Left keeps misplacing its moral imagination; and Jonathan Rowlands discusses the thorny moral issues of parking at the supermarket.

In this episode, Natalie Garrett shares some life-framing thoughts from a churchyard; Alex Stewart unpacks the UK's legal operating system and Roger Bretherton asserts that there is no such thing as an "innocent question".

In this episode, Belle Tindall-Riley explores Elizabeth Day’s psychic call and the crisis of talking to ourselves; George Pitcher asks how a single moment can reveal what martyrdom really means and Jonathan Tepper tells us how a boyhood among addicts reframes today’s noisy battles over belief.

This week, Alex Knole takes us into the euphoric feeling when music takes us to the place of touching Heaven; Bex Chapman explores the theme of class in Bridgerton's latest season and Jamie Mulvaney forges a potential third way between awful and awesome

This week, Giles Gough reviews the movie Hamnet, how it turns a literary ghost into a living pulse; Roger Bretherton considers how old epics (like The Odyssey) and cosmic stories still shape who we become and K.K. Yeo explores how old wisdom meets new machines in our search for meaning and the role of AI in our midst.

This week, Paul Woolley examines the King of the North’s career and how it exposes the tension between political drive and public credibility; Lauren Westwood explores how the broken Beckhams expose our universal need for a way back and Graham Tomlin suggests that every society cracks - not just Britain - and why that’s not the whole story.