Podcast
Podcasts
Re-enchanting
1 min read

Graham Tomlin: re-enchanting Blaise Pascal

Pascal's biographer on the polymath's huge contributions to science, culture, and more.

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

A montage of a text and a podcast gues.

Listen now

Watch now

Graham Tomlin is the Director of the Centre For Cultural Witness, and Editor in Chief of Seen & Unseen. As the former bishop of Kensington he has been involved in theological education and cultural engagement for several years. His latest book is Blaise Pascal: The man who made the modern world.

Justin, Belle and Graham explore the life and legacy of Pascal, a polymath who, in a relatively short lifetime, made huge contributions not only to science, mathematics, technology and culture but also offered arguments for Christianity that are still widely discussed today. 

Podcast
Podcasts
Seen & Unseen Aloud
1 min read

Severance, poverty, and what makes us human

New episode. Rick Hansen George Pitcher and Claire Williams explore the seen and unseen

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

Pascal ponders a steampunk TV showing Severance.
Nick Jones/Copilot.

Listen now

About the episode

This week, Rick Hansen explores the worlds of Apple TV's Severance through the lens of Blaise Pascal; George Pitcher asks how a supposedly "Godly nation" can have such extensive levels child poverty and Claire Williams asks the biggest question of all, what makes us human?