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Listen to a curated selection of the editor's top picks from the last week: crazies, comedy and the cut down tree.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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The stump of the felled sycamore tree.

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The line up for this week's episode sounds like the start of a joke.... but it's actually very thought-provoking. Roger Bretherton asks the age old question, "why are all Christians in movies crazy?"; Theodore Brun mourns the loss of the Sycamore Gap Tree and explores what it's demise can teach us; Belle Tindall takes us backstage to her conversation with Frank Skinner and the surprise that Christians are actually interesting.

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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Seen & Unseen Aloud

7 April 2025

1 min read

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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