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
Judaism
Other
Christian
Faith
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 218
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON ANDY MURRAY‘S SOB STORY
‘Self-control used to be a virtue. Now it’s thought of as dysfunctional. If we don’t display our feelings, it’s assumed we don’t have any’.
Image courtesy of Nick J Webb via flickr.com ©©
00:03:25 |
Thu 12 Jul 2012
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK SKEWERS FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
‘Our rubbish tells more about us than our art, and so it is with this ‘puerile tripe and mummy porn’
Image courtesy of crawford.I via flickr.com ©©
00:03:25 |
Wed 04 Jul 2012
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON ARGENTINA’S ‘BREATHTAKING HYPOCRISY’
As its President accuses Britain of ‘naked colonialism’. This from a country of European immigrants ‘whose national policy has been to wipe out all trace of the people they snatched it from’.
Image…
00:02:55 |
Thu 28 Jun 2012
ARCHIVE: SAME-SEX MARRIAGES: EQUAL RIGHTS OR ‘PURE POLITICS’?
David Cameron supports it, Nick Clegg says ‘when’ not ‘if’, the Churches worry about canon law and sin, and gays are split between ‘bring it on’ and ‘this is not the time’. Heat and light in our …
00:20:40 |
Wed 27 Jun 2012
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON THE EXHIBITION OF INVISIBLE ART
‘leaving judgment, intellect, and common sense at the door, and Instead fitting in with the vacuous as they glorify the vacant’.
Image courtesy of Damien Cugley via flickr.com ©©
00:03:22 |
Thu 21 Jun 2012
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON THE CASE FOR ‘UNIVERSAL’ BENEFITS
.....’partly selfish, partly economic, but especially moral: it’s about justice, social solidarity, and incentivising virtue’
Image courtesy of IanVisits via flickr.com ©©
00:03:05 |
Fri 15 Jun 2012
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON MORMON MITT ROMNEY
'It's one thing believing what is inherently unlikely, but what about believing something absolutely, obviously, and provably wrong?'
Image courtesy of More Good Foundation via flickr.com ©©
00:03:25 |
Thu 07 Jun 2012
ARCHIVE: TREVOR BARNES ON ‘HATE’ CRIMES THAT AREN’T
Public busybodies delight in the depletion of our vocabulary and the policing of our thoughts. ‘It impoverishes us all’.
Image courtesy of puuikibeach via flickr.com ©©
00:03:00 |
Fri 01 Jun 2012
ARCHIVE: TREVOR BARNES ON AN UNEXPECTED (AND UNWANTED) GIFT
The King James Bible to every school ...’an empty gesture, potentially divisive, and a thinly-disguised attempt to tell teachers what to teach’.
Image courtesy of bookchen via flickr.com ©©
00:03:18 |
Thu 24 May 2012
ARCHIVE: TREVOR BARNES ON WHY INSULTS ARE GOOD FOR US
‘In a healthy democracy, it’s every citizen’s right to be insulted... Freedom of speech is at stake here’
Image courtesy of Stephen Dagnall via flickr.com ©©
00:03:16 |
Thu 17 May 2012
ARCHIVE: BUT THEY ARE ONLY RUSSIANS
John Sweeney visits Ukraine to recall Stalin’s great famine with aged survivors, and to tell the story of two journalists – one who lied and won the Pulitzer, one who told the truth and was killed.
00:13:54 |
Wed 16 May 2012
ARCHIVE: TREVOR BARNES ON THE APPEARANCE OF ROBOCOP
The pending Olympics are ‘an excuse for normalising the deployment of Action-men and women packing more heat than soldiers in Afghanistan’.
[Image courtesy of Trojan631 via flickr.com ©©]
00:03:11 |
Fri 04 May 2012
ARCHIVE: TREVOR BARNES ON ‘THE FRIGHTENERS’ BEING PUT ON US ALL...
Our children are in danger, yes, but ‘from the jobsworth’s mindset, and from
the rule book untempered by common sense’
00:03:16 |
Mon 30 Apr 2012
ARCHIVE: TREVOR BARNES ON WHY WE SHOULD BE ON OUR GUARD
‘I hate cigarettes, but as they’re legal people must be allowed to smoke them whether or not
it hastens disease...’ Politicians should not intervene.
00:03:11 |
Thu 19 Apr 2012
ARCHIVE: JULIE BINDEL ASKS WHY SO MANY BENEFITS FOR PARENTS
‘I often think that smug mums and dads will soon insist on pushchair lanes so that they
don’t have to bother with us childless pavement pests’
00:02:54 |
Fri 13 Apr 2012
ARCHIVE: JULIE BINDEL ON AN 'UNJUSTIFIABLE PROTECTION'
The mother of the Yorkshire Ripper’s last victim discovered the police cannot be sued for negligence.
28 years later, the situation is the same. This is a scandal – not least for rape victims, who …
00:02:41 |
Thu 05 Apr 2012
ARCHIVE: COLD WAR SYMBOL FOR A GENERATION part 2
The Berlin Wall, guarded for 28 years, saw many violent deaths and many ingenious escapes. Gerry Northam reports.
00:11:00 |
Fri 23 Mar 2012
ARCHIVE: COLD WAR SYMBOL FOR A GENERATION part 1
How and why the Berlin Wall went up 50 years ago.
00:08:48 |
Fri 23 Mar 2012
ARCHIVE: JULIE BINDEL ON THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
Hundreds of troops die, yes, but thousands of civilians.
And what do those soldiers – 404 so far – die for, exactly?
[Image courtesy of AghanistanMatters via flickr.com ©©]
00:03:13 |
Wed 14 Mar 2012
ARCHIVE: JULIE BINDEL ON WHY PAYING FOR SEX IS WRONG
‘Prostitution is a cause and consequence of women’s inequality...
Men need to be educated out of the belief that paying for sex can ever be a right’.
[Image courtesy of Cédric Puisney via flickr.com…
00:03:13 |
Fri 09 Mar 2012
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