Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

'Messianic' politicians, Bridgerton and AI.

Natalie Garrett

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

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Labour Party Scotland launch event.

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This week: Bex Chapman unlock's Bridgerton's complex identity coding, Cameron Wiltshire-Plant advises his younger self not to believe in the messianic hype of politicians, and Daniel Kim suggests that AI's dominance could unleash our very humanity.

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2 October 2024

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Alex O'Connor: re-enchanting... atheism

Belle and Justin talk to Alex about atheism, culture's tides and what it would take for him to believe.

Belle Tindall

Belle is the staff writer at Seen & Unseen.

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About this episode

Alex O'Connor is a well known atheist YouTube and podcast host with over 800,000 subscribers to his channel. Unlike many online new atheists he has sought to genuinely understand his Christian and religious counterparts. This included studying theology at Oxford University, helping to re-establish a Socratic debating society in the mould of the one created by CS Lewis, and counting many Christians as his friends and acquaintances. Belle and Justin talk to Alex about atheism, the changing tides of culture and what it would take for Alex to believe…