Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

Angels, anxiety, and what Taylor Swift says about Romanticism.

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, Graham Tomlin talks Angels and their ability to reveal the unseen; Belle Tindall talks about Taylor Swift's new album and what it says about Romanticism and our obsession with epic love stories; Henna Cundill asks whether we are getting anxious about anxiety and what the younger generation has to teach us about using smartphones.

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Re-enchanting

2 April 2025

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Esther Maria Magnis: re-enchanting suffering

A raw account of the beauty of life and the ugliness of death.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Esther Maria Magnis is a German writer whose book With or Without Me is a memoir of her journey with faith and the perception of reality.

With unflinching honesty Esther takes us through her childhood and adolescence as she, along with her brother and sister, deals with the grief of her father’s cancer diagnosis, her prayers, and her journey through the loss of faith, into materialism, self-deconstruction and finally the turn back to the idea of God.

Justin and Belle talk to Esther about her raw account of coming to terms with faith through the beauty of life, the ugliness of death, and even the apparent silence of God.

With or With Out Me is published by Plough.

With or With Out Me