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A White House passion, White Lotus, Timothée, and Creme Eggs

Bumper episode: the Passion of Zelensky, don't rush Lent, the pursuit of greatness, and squad talks.

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

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Creme Egg publicity stunt, 2012.
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In a bumper episode we travel with George Pitcher to the White House considering how amid the power plays, the Passion of Zelensky stands out; Iona Curtius encourages us not to rush to the Creme Eggs, Roger Bretherton prays for Timothée Chalamet in his pursuit of greatness, and Belle Tindall joins the conversation between Jaclyn, Laurie, Kate in Season 3 of Mike White's, White Lotus.

 

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The Easter series, on Seen & Unseen Aloud

Listen to eight daily articles on what Easter means, especially selected for Holy Week.

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

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Each day from Palm Sunday (13 April), we're releasing an Easter-related article on the Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast.

Use the links below to listen on your preferred podcast platform.

New episodes will appear each day.

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Can't wait? You can also read the articles using the links in the title.

Palm Sunday: When creation and justice converge

In a world of climate catastrophe, what does the message of Easter have to offer? N.T. Wright contemplates the hope of a new heaven and a new earth.

Monday. Beyond pancakes and chocolate: a sensory guide to Lent and Easter

It’s a time to discover the whole range of human experience and emotion at Easter, writes Lianne Howard-Dace.

Tuesday. Pilate: a lord of misrule

Agents of chaos still inhabit our world today, says George Pitcher.

Wednesday. Life before death

Embracing death, parading it down streets, and even downplaying their egos, Julie Canlis contemplates why Christians do death.

Thursday. Pesellino: making the vital visible

Andrew Davison recalls learning deep wisdom from a child when he visited an exhibition at the National Gallery, London.

Good Friday. Cinematic passions

Directors Gibson, Darbont, Pasolini, Eastwood and Scorsese all feature in priest Yaroslav Walker’s top five Good Friday movies to watch.

Saturday. Identifying as human has deadly implications

Barnabas Aspray explores how the incarnation and an execution impacts humanity.

Easter Sunday. Why the anthropologists miss the point of Easter

Graham Tomlin unpacks why Easter is more than an illustration of new life.

Find out more about Seen & Unseen Aloud

Seen & Unseen Aloud podcasts features a weekly editor's pick of the best new articles on the magazine site.

Episodes usually consist of three or four articles and go live on Mondays. 

We also release themed boxsets from time to time.

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