{"id":6436,"date":"2016-08-19T09:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6436"},"modified":"2016-08-19T09:57:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:57:40","slug":"anna-katharina-schaffner-on-point-on-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/08\/19\/anna-katharina-schaffner-on-point-on-exhaustion\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Katharina Schaffner &#8211; On Point, on exhaustion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/schaffner.html\">Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner<\/a>, Reader in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Comparative Literature<\/a> and Medical Humanities, was interviewed by Tom Ashbook earlier in the week for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/onpoint\"><em>On Point<\/em><\/a>, an American radio chat show broadcast on the public station <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\">WBUR<\/a>. The programme is distributed to over 290 radio stations across the US, and averages 2 million podcast downloads per month.<\/p>\n<p>Anna was interviewed about the topic of exhaustion, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/news\/index.html?view=6136\">her recent book <em>Exhaustion: A History<\/em><\/a> (Columbia University Press in 2016), which has already provoked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/news\/index.html?view=6357\">a large amount of media interest<\/a>, and argues that extreme mental and physical exhaustion is not a modern phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Ashbrook, presenter of <em>On Point<\/em>, is a former foreign editor of <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The programme was broadcast on Wednesday 16 August and can be heard here (lasting about 47 minutes long):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/onpoint\/2016\/08\/16\/exhaustion-sleep-tired-history\">http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/onpoint\/2016\/08\/16\/exhaustion-sleep-tired-history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner, Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities, was interviewed by Tom Ashbook earlier in the week for On Point, an American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/08\/19\/anna-katharina-schaffner-on-point-on-exhaustion\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions\/6440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}