Seen & Unseen Aloud: Googling, Ukraine and dragons

Did the Google impulse started in the Garden of Eden? Ukraine visit, and contemporary dragon slaying.

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 week Elizabeth Wainwright asks whether the Google impulse started in the Garden of Eden - to know all immediately; Mark Meynell visits Ukraine and tells us a bit about "normal" life there; James Cary considers what the dragon-slaying St Michael might have to say about our culture's battle between good and evil.

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12 November 2025

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Advent Special, from Seen & Unseen Aloud

Our audio box set serves up some choice picks from Christmases past and present.

Natalie Garrett

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

Seen & Unseen Aloud: Advent Special audio boxset

Reflect this Advent with your Thinking Aloud audiobox

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However you choose to spend the festive period, we hope these reflections spark meaningful conversations and moments of stillness this Advent.

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Episode 1: Learning to find joy on Team Christmas, by psychologist Roger Bretherton

The clinical and coaching psychologist investigates the bone-deep satisfaction in the hard work of hosting Christmas at home and why the act has now become a spiritual discipline for him.

Episode 2: This is love, actually by Cameron Wiltshire Plant

The Leicestershire vicar explains that while the meet-cutes are abundant in the Christmas movie staple, it’s the sibling storyline that strikes at the truest meaning of love: God’s sacrifice.

Episode 3: My Boxing Day anti-climax, by Jonny Torrance

The priest and theologian ponders whether, once the most wonderful time of year has come and gone, anything really has changed and why the Christian faith also contends with this reality.