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Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

One of the Zabballeen's Cave Churches,

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As ever, we have a smogarsbord to listen to... Iwan Russell-Jones explores some 30,000 year old cave paintings; Trystan Owain Hughes asks why Veganuary still has merit and Graham Tomlin tells the story of how the biggest church in the Middle East was born in Garbage City.

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Seen & Unseen Aloud

28 July 2025

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Superman, the seaside, and the Salt Path

The new Superman movie; to be beside the seaside, and what it feels like to be scammed.

Natalie Garrett

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

A sunset over an island casts golden light on the sea and a beach.

An Argyll beach.

Nick Jones.

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About this episode

This week, Yaroslav Walker gives us his thoughts on the new Superman movie; Paul Bradbury talks about why we all like to be beside the seaside, and why it's good for us; in the wake of the Salt Path revelations, Susan Gray explores the feelings we experience when we've been taken in, or scammed.

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