2. Dear Joseph Conrad...

'Dear Joseph Conrad,
There’s a splendid sky outside: you’d absolutely love it; you’d be able to make something of it. It’s all blue and black and silver, with just a little hint of dark pink on the horizon, a sort of long, slightly curling, insolent lip: a cruel early morning landscape...'

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 epistolary adventures continue with a few missives to late Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad.

Producer: Conor Garrett