Seen & Unseen Aloud: vampires, poetry, and puzzles

The pitfalls in dating a vampire, poetry give us words for current world trauma, and cracking the puzzle.

Natalie Garrett

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

A modern vampire stairs at the face of his girlfried.

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in Twilight.

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In this episode, Ryan Stark points out some of the pitfalls in dating a vampire; Jack Nicholson pays beautiful tribute to W.H. Auden's poetry and its ability to give us words for current world trauma; and Jack Chisnall cracks the puzzle of our love of puzzles in his article about BBC's drama, Ludwig.

Podcast

Culture

Death & life

Romanticism

War & peace

7 October 2024

1 min read

Seen & Unseen Aloud: cosy, beauty, and loving your neighbour

Making the mundane meaningful, finding solace, and embracing a touch of doubt.

Natalie Garrett

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

A set of be-socked feat rest on a leaf strewn step beside a book and a cup of coffee.

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In this episode, Belle Tindall gets cosy and looks to make the mundane meaningful; Katherine Amphlett tells a very personal and poignant story of a grieving family finding solace and God's presence in natural beauty; on the anniversary of the conflict in the Middle East, Graham Tomlin urges the importance of loving our enemies and embracing a touch of doubt about the certainty of our moral case.