Worlds of Pure Imagination

As January draws to a close, we take a look back through some of the conversations we have had so far in 2026. First, publisher Alessandro Gallenzi joined us to reveal how he turned literary detective and uncovered Dylan Thomas's youthful plagiarism, then Joanna Kavenna explains ...  Show more

This week, Maria Scott on recently discovered photographs of Jeanne Duval, muse and lover of Charles Baudelaire; and Pratinav Anil weighs up the case for and against reparations.'Reparations: Slavery and the tyranny of imaginary guilt', by Nigel Biggar'The big payback: The case f ...  Show more

On this episode of Our American Stories, Roger Latham from Fort Worth, Texas, tells us a Christmas story he’s titled, “The Real Santa”; Lee Mendelson tells the story of how A Charlie Brown Christmas was created; Stephen Follows, an established data researcher in the film industry ...  Show more

In the highest-grossing movie of 2023, Barbie, a literal doll, leaves the comforts of Barbieland and ventures into real-world Los Angeles, where she discovers the myriad difficulties of modern womanhood. This arc from cosseted naïveté to feminist awakening is a narrative throu ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - entire story read aloud The classic Christmas tale - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens First published in 1843. Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm 

Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' | read aloud audio book | Part 2 Part 2 of our December book, the classic Christmas tale - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens First published in 1843 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm