Podcast

Podcasts

Re-enchanting

Theatre

12 March 2025

1 min read

Kate Flaherty: re-enchanting... Shakespeare

How enchantment shows up in the playwright's iconic works.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

A podcast guest holds up her hand and looks at it while speaking.

Listen now

Dr Kate Flaherty is Senior Lecturer in English and Drama at the Australian National University. She researches how Shakespeare’s works play on the stage of public culture. Her insights have been published in Contemporary Theatre Review, New Theatre Quarterly, Australian Studies and Shakespeare Survey. She is also the author of the book Ours as we play it: Australia Plays Shakespeare and of the latest volume of the Cambridge Elements series - Ellen Terry, Shakespeare and Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand.

So today Justin and Belle are going to be speaking with Kate about how enchantment shows up in the iconic works of Shakespeare.

Find about more about Kate's research.

Kate Flaherty

Watch now

Podcast

Creed

Easter

Podcasts

Seen & Unseen Aloud

13 April 2025

1 min read

The Easter series, on Seen & Unseen Aloud

Listen to eight daily articles on what Easter means, especially selected for Holy Week.

Natalie Garrett

Natalie produces and narrates The Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast. She's an Anglican minister and a trained actor.

A black cross is backlit bya blue light.

James Kovin on Unsplash.

Listen or read

Each day from Palm Sunday (13 April), we're releasing an Easter-related article on the Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast.

Use the links below to listen on your preferred podcast platform.

New episodes will appear each day.

Listen on Acast

Listen on Apple Podcasts

Listen on Spotify

Listen on Amazon Music

Amazon

Or read now

Can't wait? You can also read the articles using the links in the title.

Palm Sunday: When creation and justice converge

In a world of climate catastrophe, what does the message of Easter have to offer? N.T. Wright contemplates the hope of a new heaven and a new earth.

Monday. Beyond pancakes and chocolate: a sensory guide to Lent and Easter

It’s a time to discover the whole range of human experience and emotion at Easter, writes Lianne Howard-Dace.

Tuesday. Pilate: a lord of misrule

Agents of chaos still inhabit our world today, says George Pitcher.

Wednesday. Life before death

Embracing death, parading it down streets, and even downplaying their egos, Julie Canlis contemplates why Christians do death.

Thursday. Pesellino: making the vital visible

Andrew Davison recalls learning deep wisdom from a child when he visited an exhibition at the National Gallery, London.

Good Friday. Cinematic passions

Directors Gibson, Darbont, Pasolini, Eastwood and Scorsese all feature in priest Yaroslav Walker’s top five Good Friday movies to watch.

Saturday. Identifying as human has deadly implications

Barnabas Aspray explores how the incarnation and an execution impacts humanity.

Easter Sunday. Why the anthropologists miss the point of Easter

Graham Tomlin unpacks why Easter is more than an illustration of new life.

Find out more about Seen & Unseen Aloud

Seen & Unseen Aloud podcasts features a weekly editor's pick of the best new articles on the magazine site.

Episodes usually consist of three or four articles and go live on Mondays.

We also release themed boxsets from time to time.

Explore the podcast

Support this podcast

Since March 2023, our readers have enjoyed over hundreds of episodes of our three podcasts. All for free.
This is made possible through the generosity of our amazing community of supporters.
If you enjoy Seen & Unseen Aloud, would you consider making a gift towards our work?
Do so by joining Behind The Seen. Alongside other benefits, you’ll receive an extra fortnightly email from me sharing my reading and reflections on the ideas that are shaping our times.
Graham Tomlin
Editor-in-Chief

Support now