大象传媒

'Dear Katherine Mansfield,
The living tend to get upset, or the wrong end of the stick. But you can say what you like to the dead. You can confess your deepest fears and anxieties. Also, the dead tend to have that - you know - eternal perspective...'

From the puffed up and overpraised, to those he thinks may have been unfairly discounted, Ian Sansom imagines he's writing to some key figures from modern literary history.

Ian's correspondences begin as he drops a quick line to the late New Zealand-born author and critic Katherine Mansfield.

Producer: Conor Garrett