Imagined Lives of Unknown People

A podcast by National Portrait Gallery, London

Categories:

Arts

7 Episodes

  1. False Mary by Alexander McCall Smith

    Published: 12/12/2011

  2. Rosy by Tracy Chevalier

    Published: 11/22/2011

  3. The Tale of Joshua Easement by Terry Pratchett

    Published: 11/22/2011

  4. The Life of Nicholas Colthurst by Sarah Singleton

    Published: 11/22/2011

  5. The Biography of William Wrightson, 2nd Viscount Dorchester by Julian Fellowes

    Published: 11/22/2011

  6. A Letter from Catherine Hartshorn, A.D 1587, February 2nd by Joanna Trollope

    Published: 11/22/2011

  7. A Mathilda’s Letter by Minette Walters by Joanna Trollope

    Published: 11/22/2011

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Eight internationally acclaimed authors have invented imaginary biographies and character sketches based on fourteen unidentified portraits. Who are these men and women, why were they painted, and why do they now find themselves in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery? With fictional letters, diaries, mini-biographies and memoirs, Imagined Lives creates vivid stories about these unknown sitters from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.