Seen & Unseen Aloud: the editor's cut

Need a little Christmas day recuperation? Sit back, relax and listen to a little Christmas compilation picked by senior editor Nick Jones.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

A field of ploughed red soil leads down to a hedged lane.

Red Devon soil near South Hams.

For the Christmas season, the team at Seen & Unseen Aloud have put together Christmas Compilations from the past year: sit back and enjoy a curated stroll down memory lane - have we picked your favourites?

In the second of our Christmas compilations, it's my turn to pick my favourites.

Pondering the power of place and how it roots us and asks us to play our part here and beyond.
Of the seven deadly sins Pride is egotism with a capital E.
How an aspect of the Christmas inspires an ethical response to social censure.

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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/