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Sinopsis
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 theres 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.
Episodios
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A-Z of Things Unseen: Y is for Yamuna
26/04/2016 Duración: 05minShaunaka Rishi Das from the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies reflects on the life lessons he learnt from the Yamuna, one of India’s sacred rivers. His memories include a close encounter with a snake, and how he came to accept his wife’s death after scattering her ashes in the Yamuna.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: X is for Xenophobia
19/04/2016 Duración: 04minFollowing a chance remark from a Ukranian flatmate on the stereotypical characteristics of her neighbouring countries (sleazy Lithuanians, tidy Hungarians...), the comedy writer Paul Kerensa decided to investigate the global nature of our tendency to pigeon-hole nationalities. With stand-up comedians replacing jokes aimed at minorities with ones at the expense of celebrities and nearby towns, he compares tribal attitudes in parts of the Christian Bible, and thinks about victimless comedy.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: W is for Wafer
12/04/2016 Duración: 04minSisters Caroline Clare and Susan Elizabeth of the Community of Saint Clare in Freeland, Oxfordshire, show us how they make communion wafers, from preparing the batter to using ‘the Church of England’s equivalent of a waffle iron’. They also explain how prayer goes into each batch of wafers.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: W is for Writing Icons
05/04/2016 Duración: 05minIan Knowles is an artist and founder-director of the Bethlehem icon centre. Most of his icons are created on wood, but his most famous icon was painted on the separation wall dividing Israel from the West Bank. ‘Our Lady Who Brings Down Walls’ was made to bring hope into a hopeless situation, he says, to bring something good into the midst of suffering and fear.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: V is for Vibrations
29/03/2016 Duración: 04minFaraz Yousafzai is the lead singer and guitarist of the folk-rock band, SilkRoad. For our A-Z, he gives free rein to his poetic side to draw out connections between physical vibrations (such as those of the heart and cells in the body) and the way human beings respond to certain musical chords.
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Good Friday and Easter Haiku
25/03/2016 Duración: 26minAt the beginning of Lent we asked our listeners to look forward to the events to come in the Christian calendar – Good Friday and Easter. We set them a challenge to write haiku in response, three-line Japanese-inspired poems following a strict 5-7-5 syllable format. We’ve now recorded some of them, adding music and sound-effects. The poet Stewart Henderson joined Alison Hilliard in the Things Unseen studio to share his own haiku, and respond to those which were sent in.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: U is for Unity
08/03/2016 Duración: 04minChine McDonald (nee Mbubaegbu) of the Evangelical Alliance examines why unity is important for people of faith – and why it need not lead to uniformity.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: T is for Touch
24/02/2016 Duración: 04minJournalist and broadcaster Emma Barnett on how her tactile nature led her to question the Orthodox Jewish laws that govern physical contact between wives and husbands.
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A - Z of Things Unseen: S is for Sari
12/02/2016 Duración: 05minPlaywright, actress and artistic director Rani Moorthy reflects on the sari, a garment closely bound up with Hindu identity. She rejected it as a teenager, but has now made it the subject of a funny and poignant play – and sometimes wears it combined with doc marten boots.
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Good Friday and Easter Haiku Launch
10/02/2016 Duración: 02minWe are setting our listeners a creative challenge - to write haiku, three line poems, about Good Friday and Easter. Here are full details of how to get involved, along with some taster haiku.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: R is for Reading
09/02/2016 Duración: 04minFr Christopher Jamison, a Benedictine monk and former abbot, reflects on treating sacred texts as a delicacy best savoured slowly – and allowing them to challenge and transform us.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: Q is for Quaker
02/02/2016 Duración: 05minRuth Scott has been an Anglican priest since 1994, yet a traumatic experience drew her to the silence which is at the heart of Quaker meetings. Here she explains why.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: P is for Patience
26/01/2016 Duración: 05minAyisha Malik, author of the romantic comedy, Sofia Khan is Not Obliged, reflects on patience through the prism of Islam and how it helps answer life’s biggest question.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: O is for Overcome
19/01/2016 Duración: 04minChristian gospel hip-hop artist Faith Child on how he draws encouragement from the Bible and writing gospel songs to overcome personal struggles.
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Christmas: In Search of Mary
21/12/2015 Duración: 39minA Protestant who grew up in Ian Paisley’s Northern Ireland, where any devotion to Mary was scorned; a cradle Catholic and former friar; and a Muslim who loves Christmas, but approaches Mary very much from a Qur’anic perspective: these three go on pilgrimage together to England’s most important shrine to the Mother of Christ, Walsingham. In the course of their journey, some astonishing stories emerge.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: N is for Names of God
17/12/2015 Duración: 04minWhat’s in a name? Rabbi Naftali Brawer considers the naming and not-naming of God, and explores the meaning of those names. He explains how the names he has used for God have charted his own spiritual journey, and suggests a surprising interpretation of the very first words of the Bible.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: M is for Mysticism
08/12/2015 Duración: 04minMinna Salami, a blogger popularly known as Ms Afropolitan, explains how an automatic writing experience led her to explore mysticism, and why artists like Fela Kuti and Frida Kahlo have helped her on her mystical journey.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: L is for Lalibela
01/12/2015 Duración: 05minAlison Hilliard, a regular Things Unseen presenter, tells the story of Ethiopia’s astonishing rock-hewn churches, which were created in a mere 23 years in the 12th century and remain one of the most extraordinary pilgrimage sites for Orthodox Christians.
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A-Z of Things Unseen: K is for Khalsa Aid
25/11/2015 Duración: 04minKhalsa Aid is a humanitarian relief agency which has helped destitute people in disaster areas from Haiti to Iraq and Bosnia. Its founder, Ravi Singh, was inspired by the teachings of the Sikh gurus, who taught their followers to strive for the well-being of all humanity, not just Sikhs.
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The Faith-Friendly Atheist: Jim Al-Khalili
17/11/2015 Duración: 26minJim al-Khalili is the son of a Muslim father and a Christian mother. He is also a public atheist - the outgoing President of the British Humanist Association - a science writer and broadcaster and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Surrey. Here he talks to Abdul-Azim Ahmed about how his mixed-faith background has shaped his outlook on religion and atheism, and why he has no wish to convert everyone to the Humanist world view.