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Listen to a curated selection of the editor's top picks: the horror of war, the fable phenomenon that is Disney and the tale of Travis and Taylor.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

People walk across the rubble beside a recently bombed building.

Residents of Gaza City walk past a recently bombed building.

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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.

Listen to a curated selection of the editor's top picks which caught our interest this week. We also release themed boxsets from time to time.
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7 April 2025

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Frankenstein, friendship and assisted dying

Revisiting Never Let Me Go, invest in friends, and who will be impacted by assisted dying.

Natalie Garrett

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

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This week, Beatrice Scudeler revisits Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliant novel, Never Let Me Go as the perfect Frankenstein story for today; Tom Dove invites us to visit the Friendship Lab and take risks by investing in our friends; Ryan Rodrigues introduces us to the people he believes will be most affected by legalising assisted dying.

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