Seen & Unseen Aloud

In our last episode of 2024, Rahil Patel explores the universal human motivation to wish one another a "happy" New Year.

Christmas Day: Graham Tomlin reflects on gifts given and received at Christmas - and spots the key to a whole lot of wisdom.

Day 23: Beatrice Scudeler takes us through poems by Tennyson, Eliot, Rossetti and L’Engle, to discover their claim that at Christmas, sorrow doesn’t preclude joy.

Day 22: Katherine Amphlett compares and contrasts pre-COVID Christmas with 2020 Christmas and finds she learns more when Christmas feels wrong.

Day 21: an audio version of The Innkeeper's Wife written and performed by Natalie Garrett. Experience an overfamiliar story, in a new way.

Day 20: Today we go Big Picture as Barnabas Aspray considers the earth-shattering consequences of Christmas.

Day 19: Psychologist Roger Bretherton asks how we can push past the stresses of the festive season to rediscover the magic and tells us how he learned to find joy in being on Team Christmas. Part 2 of Unwrapping God this Christmas.

Day 18: Today we revisit S&U Aloud's birthday and the shared sense of belonging to the S&U Aloud community. And we join Belle Tindall at a Jacob Collier concert and hear again the sound of strangers sharing a sense of belonging.