Historical figures have always offered many storytelling avenues, allowing writers to explore not only major events, settings and societies in the past, but also to explore human emotions and fallacies - ultimately, bringing us closer to people from history, who can otherwise feel remote or unrelatable. In this episode, we discuss some of our favourite books about people from history, and also some of the problems of fictionalising troubled, or dark figures like serial killers.

Produced by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharmilla Ganesan

Presented by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharmilla Ganesan

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Categories:  History/Heritage,  Literature/Philosophy,  culture

Tags:  history figures,  speed dating,  fictionalization,  fallacies,  Taj: A Story of Mughal India,  Lincoln in the Bardo,  by the book,  fiction,  books,  hamnet,