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
Ramadan 101
Former Lord Mayor of Sheffield Magid Magid is joined by a team of fasting veterans to answer your burning questions on Ramadan – including the fasting rules, spiritual highs, spiritual lows, veganism…
00:30:25 |
Fri 24 May 2019
Entombed
In the midst of a ferocious thunderstorm, Joe and Nick, two no-nonsense Irishmen, are carrying a body into a cave for burial. But their relief at getting out of the rain is short lived, when an earth…
00:27:50 |
Fri 19 Apr 2019
Abbi's Last Christmas
Not long after Christmas last year, Abbi Banks died of leukaemia. With the grief still so raw, how can parents Tim and Liz and sister Debbie hang on to the Christmas message of hope as the festive se…
00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Dec 2018
A Loan From God
Shaunaka Rishi Das, an Irish-born Hindu priest reflects on his wife’s suicide and its aftermath.
In her mid-50s and suffering from depression, Shaunaka’s wife Keshava took her own life, with questio…
00:40:44 |
Mon 10 Sep 2018
A Long Walk Towards Wellness
After years of mental illness Guy Stagg embarked on a walk from Canterbury to Jerusalem, spending ten months on a 5,500 km medieval pilgrim route, a journey to the centre of the three Abrahamic fait…
00:29:19 |
Wed 20 Jun 2018
Food, Faith and Fasting with The Great British Bake Off’s Ali Imdad
Mango cake and chocolate brownies might seem a world away from politics and rising levels of anti-Muslim feeling. But Great British Bake Off contestant Ali Imdad is on a mission to counter negative …
00:22:17 |
Thu 17 May 2018
May The Force Be With You: Sci-Fi and Spirituality
Things Unseen travels through space and time for a close encounter between science fiction and faith. Steering the ship will be the writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes, with crewmates Beth Singler,…
00:28:08 |
Thu 10 May 2018
Death And Paradise
How does belief influence the way people approach death? Why don’t those who believe they’re going to heaven seem that keen to go? And how is belief changing, in an age where tweets continue to addr…
00:31:38 |
Fri 30 Mar 2018
Adam and Steve
It’s hard to think of an issue which has seen a more profound change in attitudes over the last two or three decades. Nearly thirty years after the introduction of Section 28, the law which forbade t…
00:39:44 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
The Assassination Of Santa
The Angel Gabriel goes rogue in a bid to deal with the over-commercialisation of Christmas. A fresh and irreverent look at the knotty issue of Christmas and shopping.
The cast includes vocal virtuos…
00:27:23 |
Thu 21 Dec 2017
What is beauty?
We like to think we don’t judge a book by its cover. But is that really true? Sally Phillips hears insights from Vicky Balch, a young woman who lost a limb in the Alton Towers roller coaster accident…
00:43:25 |
Mon 27 Nov 2017
The Word: Stuart Townend, author of ‘In Christ Alone’
‘In Christ Alone’, co-written by Stuart Townend, has been sung around the world, from underground churches to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s enthronement. Alongside the musician’s favourite Bible rea…
00:36:40 |
Mon 03 Jul 2017
Ramadan: In Conversation With Babar Ahmad
Babar Ahmad spent 8 years in UK prisons fighting extradition to the US. Having allowed his website to host articles supporting the Taliban he was eventually transferred to solitary confinement in the…
00:37:35 |
Wed 21 Jun 2017
Ramadan: In Conversation With Harris J
Harris J has been dubbed the Muslim Justin Bieber. With 100 million YouTube hits, and over half a million followers on Instagram, he’s taken the global Islamic music scene by storm. Here he talks to …
00:24:08 |
Mon 19 Jun 2017
Ramadan: In Conversation With Baroness Warsi
Former Tory Minister Baroness Warsi on balancing faith and fasting with life in the political arena and her views on multicultural Britain.
00:24:03 |
Wed 31 May 2017
Oliver Park - The Easter Riots (part 2)
Carl Franklin is dead. But it’s not the end of the story.
Broadchurch actor Joe Sims stars in Nick Warburton's drama which reflects the themes of the Easter story in a modern setting. The fictional…
00:28:10 |
Sun 16 Apr 2017
Oliver Park - The Easter Riots (part 1)
One year on, what's the truth behind the West Trent tragedy? Broadchurch actor Joe Sims stars in Nick Warburton's drama which reflects the themes of the Easter story in a modern setting. The fictiona…
00:28:23 |
Fri 14 Apr 2017
Preview of Oliver Park - The Easter Riots
Presenter Mark Dowd quizzes the team behind our upcoming Easter drama - writer Nick Warburton, producer Paul Arnold and Broadchurch actor Joe Sims, who plays the part of Charlie Hammond. Together the…
00:04:41 |
Thu 30 Mar 2017
Born in Bethlehem
At this time of year, millions of Christians around the world turn their minds to the events that took place in the “little town of Bethlehem” over 2000 years ago. Yet few stop to consider what life …
00:26:28 |
Tue 20 Dec 2016
How To Make A Human
The writers of Channel 4’s Humans get together with Artificial Intelligence experts to plan the construction of our very own android, or ‘synth’. What rights should it have? Is it even a good idea in…
00:32:51 |
Tue 29 Nov 2016
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