Seen & Unseen Aloud: publishing, and paganism

Faith's revival in publishing and Graham Tomlin on the choice of faith, secularism and modern paganism.

Natalie Garrett

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

Paris' Pantheon temple displays a flag and banners.

Temple of a nation: The Pantheon, Paris.

Fred Romero, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

This week's episode finds George Pitcher hoping that faith and religion are being given a revival in the world of publishing and Graham Tomlin explores the Paris Olympics for evidence of the choice between faith, secularism and modern paganism.

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7 April 2025

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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.

A close up of a forehead bearing an ash cross marked on it.

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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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