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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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ARCHIVE: PETER HITCHENS ON THE EXCUSES WE MAKE...
12/09/2012 Duración: 02min‘We admire the Paralympians because they chose not to sulk or retreat into self-pity, or to use their problem as an excuse.’ Image courtesy of nickmilleruk via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: PETER HITCHENS ARE ALL MEN CREATED EQUAL?
06/09/2012 Duración: 02minNo, says Peter Hitchens. It’s a ‘sentimental belief’ that’s come back to haunt us... Image courtesy of Photodeus via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: PETER HITCHENS ON SOFT DRUGS
31/08/2012 Duración: 02minEvidence piles up that cannabis harms us. Yet our laws have never been softer. Are we, asks Peter Hitchens, soft in the head? Image courtesy of N.ico via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: OLYMPICS OVER, CAN THERE BE A LASTING LEGACY?
24/08/2012 Duración: 18minPoliticians hope for a boost to the economy. Athletes look to a generation inspired to take up sport. Others see a resurgence of patriotism, and a greater confidence in who they are and in what they value. Nonsense, says Peter Hitchens, of the Mail on Sunday. The only legacy is ‘increased debt’. We have been ‘surprised by joy’, says Catherine Pepinster, of The Tablet, and ‘the feeling lingers’. They debate the London Olympics’ legacy - real or imagined? – with Emma Barnett. Image courtesy of somewhereto_ via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: JULIE BINDEL ON CHILD ABUSERS
24/08/2012 Duración: 02minThey choose, target, groom, and harm children. So punish them as criminals. Don’t label them weak and sick men who cannot help themselves. Image courtesy of Nick Atkins Photography via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: JULIE BINDEL ON 70,000 VOLUNTEERS...
17/08/2012 Duración: 03minA success at the London Olympics, so let’s cash in and take them off the dole and employ them. Image courtesy of Andy Wilkes via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON OUR GOLD MEDALS
10/08/2012 Duración: 04min‘It’s public schoolboys and girls wot won them. Social mobility hasn’t just seized up, it’s gone into reverse; state schools’ lack of ambition betrays our children’ Image courtesy of ahisgett via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON THE OLYMPICS
02/08/2012 Duración: 04min'We're firmly in the grip of glorious delusions'. ... admitting you can learn to love them while acknowledging the delusions they foster
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ARCHIVE: BUERK MICHAEL BUERK ON THE COLORADO KILLER
26/07/2012 Duración: 03min‘Obama promised “out of this darkness a brighter day will come”; it won’t, of course, because he won’t do anything about guns and the culture of his society which, like ours, is becoming ever more infantile.’ Image courtesy of esc.ape(d) via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON A DESPICABLE HISTORY
18/07/2012 Duración: 03minMoral relativism of the worst kind: ‘lecturing others on human rights, while trying to escape responsibility for our abuse of them’.
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ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON ANDY MURRAY‘S SOB STORY
12/07/2012 Duración: 03min‘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 ©©
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ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK SKEWERS FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
04/07/2012 Duración: 03min‘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 ©©
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ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON ARGENTINA’S ‘BREATHTAKING HYPOCRISY’
28/06/2012 Duración: 02minAs 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 courtesy of ¡Que comunismo! via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: SAME-SEX MARRIAGES: EQUAL RIGHTS OR ‘PURE POLITICS’?
27/06/2012 Duración: 20minDavid 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 provocative and informative debate. Image courtesy of Guillaume Paumier via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON THE EXHIBITION OF INVISIBLE ART
21/06/2012 Duración: 03min‘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 ©©
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ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON THE CASE FOR ‘UNIVERSAL’ BENEFITS
15/06/2012 Duración: 03min.....’partly selfish, partly economic, but especially moral: it’s about justice, social solidarity, and incentivising virtue’ Image courtesy of IanVisits via flickr.com ©©
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ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON MORMON MITT ROMNEY
07/06/2012 Duración: 03min'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 ©©
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ARCHIVE: TREVOR BARNES ON ‘HATE’ CRIMES THAT AREN’T
01/06/2012 Duración: 03minPublic 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 ©©
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ARCHIVE: TREVOR BARNES ON AN UNEXPECTED (AND UNWANTED) GIFT
24/05/2012 Duración: 03minThe 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 ©©
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ARCHIVE: TREVOR BARNES ON WHY INSULTS ARE GOOD FOR US
17/05/2012 Duración: 03min‘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 ©©