<p>If you had to tell a story to stay alive … what story would you tell? Jeanette Winterson’s new book, <em>One Aladdin Two Lamps</em>, is a nonfiction exploration of storytelling, culture, politics and the things that make us human. It’s based on the <em>One Thousand and One Nights</em>, the famous collection of Middle Eastern folk tales home to characters like Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba. At the centre of it all is Scheherazade, a woman who tells a vengeful Sultan stories for 1001 nights to stop him from executing her. Like Scheherazade, Jeanette sees storytelling as a means of survival. In the book, she uses those tales to muse on the way that stories shape our identities and our lives … and how they’re a tool to better ourselves and the world around us.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Liked this conversation? Keep listening:</p><ul><li><a href="https://link.mgln.ai/Y1pk4v " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zadie Smith never thought she’d tell this story</a> </li><li><a href="h...