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Seen & Unseen Aloud: the director's cut

At the start of a new year, Bishop Graham Tomlin looks back over his favourite articles of 2023.

Graham is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Witness and a former Bishop of Kensington.

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A 13th Century depiction of a meeting between Latin and east Syrian clerics.
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At the start of a new year, Bishop Graham Tomlin - Director of the Centre for Cultural Witness, publisher of Seen & Unseen and the Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast, looks back over his favourite articles of 2023.

  • The Screwtape Letters image of hell as an unscrupulous business is still relevant. Simon Horobin tells how C.S. Lewis came to author the influential bestseller.
  • An astonishing tale of a Chinese priest meeting a medieval monarch sheds a different light on the extent of Christendom. Benjamin Sharkey tells the surprising tale of the historic Asian church.
  • Bach’s boundless abundance: the making of a musical genius. Jeremy Begbie shares how Bach explored musical possibility.

 

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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.