Things Unseen
Things Unseen grapples with a spiritual climate that no longer conforms to orderly patterns – with fewer of us attracted to formal religion, but many still believing that there’s more out there than meets the eye. Thought-provoking speech radio for people of faith – and those who just feel intrigued by the spiritual dimension to life.
Religion & Spirituality
Spirituality
Hinduism
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
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Other
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Faith
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 218
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
ARCHIVE: HAITI’S RELIGIOUS CLASH
Aid goes to Evangelicals, not us, accuses voodoo leader.
In the rebuilding after the earthquake, Evangelicals bring aid to a country said to be 80 per cent Catholic and 100 per cent Voodoo. With ve…
00:13:42 |
Thu 12 Jan 2012
ARCHIVE: WENDY ROBBINS ON PROTECTING OUR KIDS
WENDY ROBBINS ON PROTECTING OUR KIDS
... from sexually-explicit songs in the charts
‘My children are 7, 9, 12. They singalong to pop song lyrics like “‘sex in the air, I don’t care’. I don’t w…
00:03:10 |
Thu 05 Jan 2012
ARCHIVE: GLOBAL WARMING: DOES IT MATTER?
GLOBAL WARMING: DOES IT MATTER?
The clash between reducing emissions and development.
A climate summit in Durban has ended with agreement to bring down carbon emissions to save the planet.
A dea…
00:19:11 |
Thu 15 Dec 2011
ARCHIVE: ART OF COMPLAINING
Complaining is part and parcel of our everyday existence. Usually it’s personal, trivial, and not to be taken seriously. But sometimes it’s bigger than that. The question is: are there any tips f…
00:08:10 |
Thu 15 Dec 2011
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON THE CLIMATE SUMMIT
So why no debate on the assumptions behind the more apocalyptic forecasts?
Example: the UN forecast 50 million climate refugees by 2010 – where are they?
00:03:38 |
Thu 08 Dec 2011
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON THE BIG PHARMA
To worry about our NHS medical records being handed over to drug companies is not naive left-wing rights rhetoric.We need reassuring that ‘we’re not going to end up as lab rats’.
00:03:12 |
Thu 08 Dec 2011
ARCHIVE: WHAT THE PROTESTERS ARE SAYING...
Occupy London protests… the birth of people-powered politics? A gathering of non-toilet trained hippies? Or one expression among many from people who ‘feel cheated’? Louisa Bolch decides.
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00:07:21 |
Mon 05 Dec 2011
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON THE FAT TAX
Britain is the fat champion of Europe; the PM is considering a so-called fat tax. But it’s our choice, it’s our business, it’s not the government’s job to tell us how to eat. It’s another example of …
00:03:15 |
Thu 01 Dec 2011
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON SWEARING
The ‘F’ word is ok, just cheery badinage. ‘Black, in what is thought to be the wrong context, induces apoplexy. Another sign, says Buerk, of ‘a vertiginous decline in civility…a growing coarseness in…
00:03:03 |
Wed 23 Nov 2011
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON PHONE-HACKING
The News of the World became the biggest-selling newspaper by printing as much sordid detail of people’s private lives as it could grub up and get away with. But, remember, ‘we loved it’.
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00:02:57 |
Thu 17 Nov 2011
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON THE PROTESTORS
Yes, bankers have ‘nationalised their risks while privatising their rewards’ – but the St Pauls’ protestors, ‘spoilt children of capitalism, living lives beyond the dreams of previous generations’, o…
00:02:56 |
Thu 10 Nov 2011
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON GLOBAL POPULATION
As the 7 billionth human being is born, one problem, says Michael Buerk, underpins nearly all others in the world, but it’s the one we don’t talk about: ‘There are too many of us’.
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00:04:12 |
Wed 02 Nov 2011
ARCHIVE: BETRAYAL OF THE OLD
Britain’s ethnic minorities call our country’s care of the elderly ‘horrible’ and ‘a betrayal’. For them, it’s culturally taboo for strangers to look after the elderly – and they also see the failin…
00:10:12 |
Wed 02 Nov 2011
ARCHIVE: ABORTION: HOW MANY IS TOO MANY?
There are 200,000 abortions every year in the UK. Is that too many? Shouldn’t you be able to ask the question without being labelled a nutter? But, in the end, is it the wrong question? Emma Barnet…
00:17:43 |
Fri 28 Oct 2011
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON HUMAN RIGHTS
We’ve got ourselves into a mess over human rights, says Michael Buerk, especially those enshrined in law. Human rights are not god-given. Human rights don’t come from some natural law. They’re not a…
00:03:13 |
Fri 21 Oct 2011
ARCHIVE: THE FORGOTTEN VICTIMS
The war in Iraq claimed many thousands of victims, but forgotten among them were the multitude of religious minorities. First, they faced persecution. Later, many were killed. Finally, thousands wer…
00:09:57 |
Fri 07 Oct 2011
ARCHIVE: THE HOLOCAUST OBFUSCATORS
Wendy Robbins on Europe’s ‘holocaust’ obfucators’ – growing in number and arguably more dangerous than ‘deniers’
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00:11:02 |
Fri 07 Oct 2011
ARCHIVE: PRAISING & PROMOTING TYRANTS
John Sweeney on the ‘useful idiots’ who promoted propaganda, rather than listen to the cries of the tyrannised
Stalin was responsible for 10 million deaths in the Great Famine, but among those who l…
00:08:56 |
Tue 13 Sep 2011
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