Podcast
Loneliness
Podcasts
Politics
Romance
Seen & Unseen Aloud
1 min read

Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

Listen now: loneliness at Downing Street; political emotions, and a wedding tiff.

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Bobby Brazier at 10 Downing Street.
NHS.

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This week we explore loneliness with Belle Tindall, the NHS and Downing Street; we think about the role of emotions alongside reason in the realm of politics with Henna Cundill and Jonathan Rowlands straddles both sides of the dispute between wedding photographers and clergy.

Podcast
Podcasts
Re-enchanting
Theatre
1 min read

Kate Flaherty: re-enchanting... Shakespeare

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

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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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.

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