This is part one of a two part conversation with Dr. Malcolm Guite. In this episode, Dr. Guite describes his vibrant childhood journey from Nigeria to Cambridge and his parent’s presentation of ‘life’ as a stage for wonder, poetry and imagination. Dr.Guite sees creativity as essential to our health. He says, “Starving and repressing a person’s imagination is just as bad as starving and repressing their body. Possibly worse.”