Episodes we love: Artist Known — Illustrator for 'A Wrinkle in Time' gets long-overdue credit

Endless Thread

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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New to Endless Thread? Wooooo! We're revisiting some favorites from our archives to welcome you.

First up: The cover art for the 1976 paperback edition of Madeleine L'Engle's classic, spooky sci-fi/fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" — featuring a rainbow-winged centaur and a green, glowering, red-eyed face — is iconic. And yet, for nearly 50 years, no one has known who illustrated it. Well, not NO ONE. Not anymore... Endless Thread cracks the case!

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0:00.0	Hey Sainsbury's. Any way you can save me a few quid on my weekly shop?
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0:21.3	I mean Sainsbury.
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0:24.4	Unlock up to 10 your nectar prices weekly,
0:26.4	available in supermarkets online and in locals with smart shop.
0:29.2	TNCs apply.
0:30.1	Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken?
0:33.5	A podcast from the Mayrotra Institute at BU Questrum School of Business.
0:38.4	When does self-regulation go too far?
0:40.9	A recent episode looks at high-stakes antitrust battles and more.
0:45.5	Stick around until the end of this podcast for a preview of a recent episode.
0:50.1	Ben Brock Johnson.
0:51.4	Amory Sebertson.
0:52.9	Happy spooky week.
0:55.2	Woo.
0:57.8	So people who've been listening to Endless Thread for a while will know that we have a tradition of doing at least one, sometimes a whole handful of spooky episodes as Halloween approaches.
1:08.6	And we call it Endless Dread.
1:12.0	Yes.
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