Culture

A pedigree musical producer’s passion project casts a Hollywood prince in the role of Holy Land rock star regent. Krish Kandiah reviews the results.

There was much more to the famed monarch than a padded codpiece, Historian Suzannah Lipscomb unpacks how his toxic behaviour led to ridicule and dishonour. Part of The Problem with Men series.

A nervy, precarious read echoes the lives of outsiders across Europe. Simon Burton-Jones reviews Ben Judah’s This is Europe.

The death of Friends star Matthew Perry still resonates even after the celebrity news cycle has moved on. Comedy writer James Cary contemplates how endings are written.

Listen to a curated selection of recent Seen & Unseen articles. This episode: the preciousness of an ordinary day, visiting the memorials of American history and human dignity and worth.

Author and speaker Glen Scrivener discusses ’The Air We Breathe’ - a guide to ‘how we all came to believe in freedom, kindness, progress and equality’.

Musician and priest Rev Simpkins discusses how music is an expression of humanity and his faith. An interview with Jonathan Evens.

What happens when questions of belief are subject to obsessive behaviours? The impact of OCD on key life moments.

Listen to a curated selection of the editor's top picks: the art of dying, the end of killing and the search for Martin Luther King.

Author, public theologian and speaker Chine McDonald tells of her own experience as a black woman in Britain and the way in which both culture and the church still have a long way to go in addressing racism.

Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk, is a biographic rollercoaster reckons Krish Kandiah. One marked by magnificent moments and moral crossroads.

From an oddly-sweet, sweetly-odd film of oddness, to one of the best action films ever made, Yaroslav Walker’s hand-crafts his top five films about AI.