Seen & Unseen Aloud

Listen to narrated articles. The challenges of ADHD, how identifying as human has deadly implications, and some wisdom around fasting.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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This week, first up Henna Cundhill helps us consider the real life challenges and superpowers of an ADHD diagnosis. Then we head into the first of our Lent offerings with Barnabas Aspray explaining how identifying as human has deadly implications. Finally, Julie Canlis exploring some medieval wisdom around the benefits of intermittent fasting.

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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.

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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/