Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

Angels, anxiety, and what Taylor Swift says about Romanticism.

Natalie Garrett

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

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This week, Graham Tomlin talks Angels and their ability to reveal the unseen; Belle Tindall talks about Taylor Swift's new album and what it says about Romanticism and our obsession with epic love stories; Henna Cundill asks whether we are getting anxious about anxiety and what the younger generation has to teach us about using smartphones.

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15 November 2024

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Sarah Irving-Stonebraker: re-enchanting the ahistorical age

In our age of self-invention, we are profoundly disconnected from the history that once gave us identity.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

A woman sitting in an empty church talks to the camera and gestures with one hand.

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Sarah Irving-Stonebraker is an Australian historian whose new book Priests of History: stewarding the past in an ahistoric age, says that, in our age of self-invention, modern people are profoundly disconnected from the stories, practises and history that once gave them their identity.

Justin and Belle talk to Sarah about re-enchanting an ahistorical age and about her own journey from atheism to Christianity as a young academic at Cambridge and Oxford in the early 2000s.

Visit Sarah Irving-Stonebraker's web site. https://www.stonebraker.com.au/