Seen & Unseen Aloud: Easter

The big questions of our experience. Is temperance vital? What's more real than raw politics? And, are we loved and missed?

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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In this episode, to mark Easter Week, we are thinking about some of the biggest questions of the human experience: Barnabas Aspray explores the unfashionable but possibly vital virtue of temperance; Owen Gallacher asks whether Putin's reality is the most "real" reality or whether the events of Easter may point to something even more real and Nathan Betts reminds us that in our darkest moments, we are loved and missed by Someone.

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4 June 2025

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