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Christmas countdown day 19: team Christmas

Push past the stresses of the festive season and find joy.
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The Christmas Countdown

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Every day in December, we’ll drop some of the best seasonal content from Seen & Unseen Aloud. From how to survive Christmas, reviews of the best Christmas movies and the origin story of Santa Claus.

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Seen & Unseen Aloud
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Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

Stories vs. facts, saying sorry, and music to wander too.

Natalie produces and narrates The Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast. She's an Anglican minister and a trained actor.

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This week we start with Jared Stacy unpacking how projections and polls cannot capture the power of stories shaping identity and US election politics. Roger Bretherton asks why it is that "sorry" just might be the hardest word. And Helen Cowan dives into a poem by JRR Tolkien which speaks to her, poignantly, about the experience of living with dementia.