Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

C.S. Lewis' storytelling, Shardlake, and the mistakes that set us apart.

Natalie Garrett

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

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Shardlake, left, played by Arthur Hughes.

In the second of our Summer episodes, Simon Horobin unpacks CS Lewis's assertion that great stories allow ideas to be experienced rather than merely thought about; James Cary explores the Disneyfication of the Monasteries in Shardlake and Sylvianne Aspray asserts that it's our mistakes that set us apart from the machines.

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Re-enchanting

6 August 2025

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Re-Enchanting Live: why the tide of faith is turning

Recorded at Wildfires

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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About this episode

Co-hosts Belle Tindall and Justin Brierley are joined by Bishop Graham Tomlin in a live audience edition of the podcast - recorded at Wildfires festival. Together they’ll explore why a ’surprising rebirth’ of belief in God seems to be underway in the West and how the church can engage those coming through its doors once again. If you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world.