Things Unseen
210 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThings 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.
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ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON SWEARING
November 23, 2011 16:30 - 3 minutes - 2.59 MBThe ‘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 our public (and private) life’. [Image Courtesy of BIll Barber via Flickr.com ©©]
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON PHONE-HACKING
November 17, 2011 14:30 - 2 minutes - 2.54 MBThe 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’. [Image courtesy of Gideon Tsang via Flickr.com ©©]
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON THE PROTESTORS
November 10, 2011 14:43 - 2 minutes - 2.53 MBYes, 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’, offer only ‘vapid sloganising’. What would Jesus do? they ask. The only possible answer is: God knows. [Image Courtesy of James Guppy via Flickr.com ©©]
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON GLOBAL POPULATION
November 02, 2011 14:43 - 4 minutes - 3.25 MBAs 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’. [Image Courtesy of Bindaas Madhavi via Flickr.com ©©]
ARCHIVE: BETRAYAL OF THE OLD
November 02, 2011 11:51 - 10 minutes - 6.7 MBBritain’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 failings of our care home system. Do they have anything to teach the West? Interviewing care home nurses, relatives, and former 'Pensioners Tzar' Joan Bakewell, Louisa Bolch goes On The Inside...
ARCHIVE: ABORTION: HOW MANY IS TOO MANY?
October 28, 2011 11:40 - 17 minutes - 11.2 MBThere 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 Barnett ‘interrogates’ Suzanne Moore of The Guardian and Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship. [Image courtesy of limaoscarjuliet via Flickr.com ©©]
ARCHIVE: MICHAEL BUERK ON HUMAN RIGHTS
October 21, 2011 11:56 - 3 minutes - 2.69 MBWe’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 absolute, or inalienable. They’re qualified, subjective, and fashionable. And they change all the time. [Image courtesy of Yoshiffles via Flickr.com ©©]
ARCHIVE: THE FORGOTTEN VICTIMS
October 07, 2011 11:27 - 9 minutes - 6.56 MBThe 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 were forced into exile. Edward Stourton reports from Iraq. [Image copyright of Mazur via flickr.com/catholicchurch.org.uk ©©]
ARCHIVE: THE HOLOCAUST OBFUSCATORS
October 07, 2011 11:25 - 11 minutes - 7.18 MBWendy Robbins on Europe’s ‘holocaust’ obfucators’ – growing in number and arguably more dangerous than ‘deniers’ [Image courtesty of KS7 @ www.deviantart.com ©©]
ARCHIVE: PRAISING & PROMOTING TYRANTS
September 13, 2011 11:45 - 8 minutes - 5.97 MBJohn 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 lauded him were H G Wells, Doris Lessing, George Bernard Shaw, and the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Walter Duranty. Others defied the tyrant, and often paid the ultimate price. John Sweeney tells a remarkable story. [Image courtesty of Alilaxor @ www.deviantart.com ©©]