Podcast
Attention
Culture
Seen & Unseen Aloud
Virtues
Weirdness
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Seen & Unseen Aloud: the writer's cut

The final Seen & Unseen Aloud holiday compilation has been picked by writer and podcast host Belle Tindall.

Belle is the staff writer at Seen & Unseen and co-host of its Re-enchanting podcast.

A man dressed in Georgian clothes walks out of the mist.
Mr Darcy, portrayed by Matthew Macfadyen, in the 2005 TV adaptation of Pride & Prejudice.

The final Seen & Unseen Aloud holiday compilation has been picked by Belle Tindall, who writes for Seen & Unseen and co-hosts our sister podcast Re-enchanting.

  • Explore why films often portray the god-fearing as ‘always so god-damn weird’.
  • The most beloved of Jane Austen's male protagonists is re-examined for the virtues he practises.
  • Your attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity, Explore the vital wisdom of Simone Weil.
Podcast
Culture
Development
Justice
Re-enchanting
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Sabina Alkire: re-enchanting the human faces behind poverty

Professor Sabina Alkire talks about how we can re-enchant our capacity for justice and compassion in tackling global poverty

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Professor Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford. Sabina has been involved in developing methods of measuring multidimensional poverty and her work is used to address development issues in countries around the world.

Sabina is ordained in the Anglican Church. Belle and Justin explore how her Christian faith maps onto her work in engaging poverty and development and how we can re-enchant our capacity for justice and compassion in tackling global poverty.

Read more about Sabina's academic work.

There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen recorded at Lambeth Palace Library, the home of the Centre for Cultural Witness. Justin Brierley and Belle Tindall engage faith and spirituality with leading figures in science, history, politics, art and education. Can our culture be re-enchanted by the vision of Christianity?

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