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A forest grows, we tumble into a dream and cross into Outside Over There...

Afterwords dives into the wild, feverish imagination of Maurice Sendak. The Brooklyn-born writer and artist dreamed some of the most beloved picture books of the 20th Century into being - from Where the Wild Things Are to In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There - these books offered a doorway into the vast inner landscapes of childhood. In this documentary, we hear archive recordings of Sendak himself alongside interviews with a Jungian analyst and poets and writers who've been inspired by his work.

Featuring the writers Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Emily Berry and Michael Rosen alongside Jungian analyst and interviewee in Jonathan Cott's 'There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak', Margaret Klenck; art historian, artist and curator for the Maurice Sendak Foundation, Jonathan Weinberg and the president of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, Lynn Caponera. As well as archive of Studs Terkel and Terry Gross, in her radio show Fresh Air, in conversation with Sendak himself.

Archive courtesy of the Studs Terkel Archive (interviews from 1970, 1984 and 1990 and Fresh Air from WHYY

Produced by Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3