Exploring Northern Lights

Why does the literature of the fantastic continue to be so enduringly popular? Why are both child and adult readers so drawn to stories of magic, the supernatural and the strange, set in worlds other than our own? And what might such stories tell us about our everyday lives, and the world around us? As part of Durham Book Festival’s celebration of 2015’s Big Read, Northern Lights, a panel of researchers from Durham University consider these questions in this podcast. Experts from Literary Studies, History and Theology consider Northern Lights, and other stories of the fantastic.