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  • 21st October 2024: Harvest, the Nicene Creed and Conscientious Objections to Assisted Dying

    21st October 2024: Harvest, the Nicene Creed and Conscientious Objections to Assisted Dying
    2024/10/21
    This week, George Pitcher asks why we still bother celebrating Harvest; Jane Williams explains why the Nicene Creed was such a total game-changer and Henna Cundill explores the proposed legislation around Assisted Dying from the point of view of Conscientious Objectors.

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    23 分
  • 14th October 2024: Joy, Kaos and Assisted Dying

    14th October 2024: Joy, Kaos and Assisted Dying
    2024/10/10
    In this week's particularly eclectic episode, Natalie Garrett contemplates the power of real joy; Theodore Brun gives us a thoughtful review of Netflix's "Kaos" and Matthew Hall challenges us to think again about Assisted Dying

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    25 分
  • 7th October 2024: Cosy time, the power of beauty and loving your neighbour in the Middle East

    7th October 2024: Cosy time, the power of beauty and loving your neighbour in the Middle East
    2024/10/07

    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.



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    22 分
  • 30th September 2024: Tree of knowledge - Google, Ukraine & St Michael's dragons

    30th September 2024: Tree of knowledge - Google, Ukraine & St Michael's dragons
    2024/10/03
    This week week Elizabeth Wainwright asks whether the Google impulse started in the Garden of Eden - to know all immediately; Mark Meynell visits Ukraine and tells us a bit about "normal" life there; James Cary considers what the dragon-slaying St Michael might have to say about our culture's battle between good and evil.

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    27 分
  • S&UA short: Watching Grenfell - the lost art of penitence by Graham Tomlin

    S&UA short: Watching Grenfell - the lost art of penitence by Graham Tomlin
    2024/09/25
    In our first Seen & Unseen Aloud Short, Graham Tomlin narrates his own article "Watching Grenfell - the lost art of penitence".

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    10 分
  • 23rd September 2024: Stories vs Facts in US election; is sorry the hardest word? and a Tolkien poem speaking into dementia

    23rd September 2024: Stories vs Facts in US election; is sorry the hardest word? and a Tolkien poem speaking into dementia
    2024/09/23
    This week we start with Jared Stacy unpacking how projections and polls cannot capture the power of stories shaping identity and US election politics; Roger Bretherton asks why it is that "sorry" just might be the hardest word and Helen Cowan dives into a poem by JRR Tolkien which speaks to her, poignantly, about the experience of living with dementia.

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    30 分
  • 16th September 2024: Labour PMs & Britpop; the poignancy of aging parents and the surprising wisdom of Deadpool & Wolverine

    16th September 2024: Labour PMs & Britpop; the poignancy of aging parents and the surprising wisdom of Deadpool & Wolverine
    2024/09/16

    In this episode, George Pitcher tracks the cultural story of Oasis and two Labour Prime Ministers; Katherine Amphlett visits her aging parents and needs to put on an armour of feathers while James Lawrence finds a surprising story amid the cynical desert of Deadpool and Wolverine's nihilism.



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    27 分
  • 9th September 2024: Inside Out, Wild God and Grenfell's Tale of Two Towers

    9th September 2024: Inside Out, Wild God and Grenfell's Tale of Two Towers
    2024/09/09
    This week we enter a world of high drama - internally we voyage with Henna Cundill through the spiritual potential of the Inside Out films; Belle Tindall takes us on an emotional ride through Nick Cave's new album, Wild God; and Graham Tomlin challenges us to see The Grenfell Tower Inquiry as a significant cultural moment to reflect personally and nationally on the way we treat each other.

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    29 分